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Pregnancy Without Birth - A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage (Paperback)
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Pregnancy Without Birth - A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage (Paperback)
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Pregnancy is so thoroughly entangled with birth and babies in the
popular imagination that a pregnancy which ends in miscarriage
consistently appears as a failure or a waste of time – indeed, as
not proper to pregnancy at all. But in this compelling book,
Victoria Browne argues that reflection on miscarriage actually
deepens and expands our understanding of pregnancy, forcing us to
consider what pregnancy can amount to besides the production of a
child. By exploring common themes within personal accounts of
miscarriage—including feelings of failure, self-blame and being
‘stuck in limbo’—Pregnancy Without Birth critically
interrogates teleological discourses and disciplinary ideologies
that elevate birth as pregnancy’s ‘natural’ and ‘normal’
endpoint. As well as politicizing miscarriage as a feminist issue,
the book articulates an alternative intercorporeal philosophy of
pregnancy which embraces variation, invites us to sit with
ambiguity, contingency and suspension, and enables us to see
subjective agency in all pregnancies, even as they are shaped by
biological, political and social forces beyond our personal
control. What emerges is a relational feminist politics of
full-spectrum solidarity, social justice and care (rather than
individualized choice and responsibility), which breaks down
presumed oppositions between pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion,
stillbirth and live birth, and liberates pregnancy from
reproductive futurism.
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