Motherhood Lost - A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America by Linda L.Layne

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Published 2003 in United States of America; 354 pages; 22.5 x 15 cms; Some black and white photos

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Table of Contents; About the Author; Book Reviews;

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements (p.ix); Chapter 1: My Miscarriage Years (p.1); Chapter 2: Caught in the Middle - Pregnancy Loss at the Turn of the Century (p.9); Chapter 3: Pregnancy - Loss Support (p.41); Chapter 4: Challenges to Narratives of Linear Progress (p.59); Chapter 5: New Reproductive Technologies and the Fetal Subject (p.81); Chapter 6: 'He Was a Real Baby and Baby Things' - A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood, and Pregnancy Loss (p.103); Chapter 7: 'True Gifts from God' - Paradoxes of Motherhood, Sacrifice and Enrichment (p.145); Chapter 8: 'Never Such Innocence Again' - Irony, Nature and Technoscience (p.173); Chapter 9: 'I Will Never Forget You' - Trauma, Memory and Moral Identity (p.199); Chapter 10: Breaking the Silence - A Feminist Agenda for Pregnancy Loss (p.235); Notes (p.251); Selected Bibliography (p.299); Index (p.347)

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About the Author:

Linda L.Layne is Hale Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechic Institute

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Book Reviews:

From the book cover: 'Motherhood Lost is a beautiful and passionate book. In this insightful ethnographic investigation, Linda Layne weaves together the intersecting religious, biomedical, consumerist and familial practices that surround and construct pregnancy loss in contemporary America ... beckoning us to recognise and remake a world in which women's losses can be remembered ...' Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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