2013
DOI: 10.1353/ff.2013.0045
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Feminism and Women’s Control over Their Bodies in a Neoliberal Context: A Closer Look at Pregnant Women on Bed Rest

Abstract: Feminist self-identification influences women’s voting practices, perceptions of gender discrimination, and views about their bodies. However, there is little information on how feminist self-identification influences women’s experiences of high-risk pregnancy, if at all. The article focuses on women’s identification with feminism within a neoliberal US context to examine how women make sense of and experience the medical prescription of pregnancy bed rest. Each year, medical professionals prescribe pregnancy … Show more

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“…Doctors often deny single, LTBTQ, poor, and/or disabled women who wish to become pregnant accesses to IVF. This means when striving for and achieving pregnancy, women can struggle to maintain control over their bodies as physicians decide who gets to become pregnant (Alcade, 2013). In this regard, the culture expects certain women to achieve pregnancy regardless of the financial or medical burden.…”
Section: Woman's Subjugation Through Pregnancymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Doctors often deny single, LTBTQ, poor, and/or disabled women who wish to become pregnant accesses to IVF. This means when striving for and achieving pregnancy, women can struggle to maintain control over their bodies as physicians decide who gets to become pregnant (Alcade, 2013). In this regard, the culture expects certain women to achieve pregnancy regardless of the financial or medical burden.…”
Section: Woman's Subjugation Through Pregnancymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The feminist 2 revolution introduced an alternative discourse of pregnancy. Feminists worked to reclaim pregnancy from an act of subjugation (Stephens, 2004) to one of empowerment (Alcade, 2013;Sevón, 2005). One logic that helped women shift pregnancy from an obligation resulted from increased access to medical contraception and abortion in the late 20 th century (Sevón, 2005).…”
Section: Pregnancy Reclaimedmentioning
confidence: 99%
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