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Reproducing Women

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How do women experience reproductive health? How is knowledge about health issues transmitted from one generation to the next? Utilizing sociological and feminist lenses, Reproducing Women argues t...
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  • 01 April 2013
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How do women experience reproductive health? How is knowledge about health issues transmitted from one generation to the next? Utilizing sociological and feminist lenses, Reproducing Women argues that women experience reproductive health as a part of their entire life story, rather than as discrete medical “problems.” Drawing together stories and interviews with three generations of women across twenty-four families, this book examines women’s experience of their “reproductive lives” in order to uncover how women’s experience is rooted in the family and among generational relationships: between mother, daughter, grandmother and granddaughter. By placing women’s biological and embodied experiences, including issues such as menarche, contraception, sexual intercourse, childbirth and menopause, in a social and cultural context, women’s broader roles in ‘social reproduction’ are revealed.
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Price: $24.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 01 April 2013
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552665190
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
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Marilyn Porter is a professor emerita of sociology at Memorial University. Diana L. Gustafson
is an associate professor of social science and health in the medicine and gender study departments
at Memorial University.

: Women’s Reproductive Lives
: Relationships: Mothers, Daughters and Granddaughters in Two Families
: Becoming a Woman: Learning about Menarche and Sex
: Becoming a Mother: Conception, Pregnancy and Birthing
: Being a Mother: Motherwork, Identity Work and Reproducing the Family
: The Moment of Menopause: Change and Transition in Women’s Reproductive Lives
: Grandmothering and the Long Moment of Aging
: Experience and the Reproductive Lives of Women
: References