Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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xiv, 323 pages : 24 cm.
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Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-317) and index.
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Publisher's description: Policing the womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Goodwin, M. (2020). Policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood . Cambridge University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Goodwin, Michele. 2020. Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. Cambridge University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Goodwin, Michele. Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Cambridge University Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Goodwin, Michele. Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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