WGST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Clitoridectomy, Feticide, Child Neglect
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Louise brown, born in 1978 in england was the first test tube baby. According to ricki solinger, what word became the symbol for middle- class women"s arrival as independent consumers? (hint: this word is prevalent in some arguments for abortion rights. ) What social movement has historical links to margaret sanger and. For all of women in thompson"s study, eating (or not eating) was a way of coping with trauma. According to smith, both the pro-life and pro-choice rely on criminal justice to adjudicate reproductive issues. Davis argues that we should understand vaginal modifications and even issues of consent as existing on a continuum instead of creating dichotomy of good/acceptable and bad/barbaric operations. Women"s bodies are often understood or framed as always abnormal, as diseased and so fort. Women are seen as different from both psychologically, so we discourse about women being too emotional.