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Pam Lowe shows how although nominally choices are presented to women around reproductive health, maternal sacrifice is used to discipline women into conforming to specific norms, reasserting traditional forms of womanhood. This has significant implications for women's autonomy. Women can resist or reject this disciplinary position when making reproductive decisions, but in doing so, they may be positioned as transgressing and/or need to justify their decisions. The book will be of great interest to scholars of sociology, gender studies and health studies.
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Book Title: Reproductive Health and Maternal Sacrifice
Book Subtitle: Women, Choice and Responsibility
Authors: Pam Lowe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47293-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47292-2Published: 11 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47293-9Published: 29 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 224
Topics: Medical Sociology, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging