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Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Kindle Edition
- ISBN-13978-1107030176
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateMarch 12, 2020
- LanguageEnglish
- File size2383 KB
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Michele Goodwin's Policing the Womb is aprerequisite to understanding the very real dangers posed by punitive statelaws enacted under the guise of protecting women's health, but which haveinstead criminalized women's conduct during pregnancy, harmed women's andgirls' health, and allowed unimaginable state interventions into women'sreproductive lives. Goodwin brings into sharp focus the compelling stories ofthe first targets and victims of these laws--primarily poor women and women ofcolor--as she puts into context the risks to all women given the currentpolitical climate and Supreme Court's jurisprudence. After you finish reading Policing the Womb and havequelled your anger, you will have no choice but to join one of the many localand national efforts to fight for women's full constitutional and fundamentalhuman rights. Kathy Spillar, ExecutiveDirector, Feminist Majority Foundation
Basedon extensive research and advocacy, Michele Goodwin vividly shows how theintensifying punishment of pregnant women in the name of fetal protection comesat a devastating cost to human health and freedom. Policing the Womb is an urgent call to end the dehumanizingpractice of criminalizing pregnancy.
Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing theBlack Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
"Policing The Womb is the roadmap we need RIGHT NOW to understand how to navigate the sandstorm of laws being created to claim ownership of our bodies. It brilliantly lays out all the ways politicians and the medical community are removing pregnant people from the most important decisions we will make about how best to manage our reproductive lives." Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator of the Daily Show, Founder/Chief Creative Officer: Abortion Access Front
ProfessorGoodwin has written the definitive examination of the disturbing and pervasivetrend of policing pregnant women's bodies. She skillfully draws on contemporarystories as examples that reflect how the establishment of legal rights for theunborn - so-called "fetal protection laws" - inevitably define pregnant women'sbodies as objects of the state, to be controlled and punished. Informative and eye-opening,Policing the Womb makes a clear casefor systemic change towards reproductive justice.
Rebecca Haimowitz, Director and Producer, 62Days
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- ASIN : B082PZHR4Q
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press (March 12, 2020)
- Publication date : March 12, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 2383 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 326 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 110703017X
- Best Sellers Rank: #622,591 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #63 in Civil Rights Law (Kindle Store)
- #282 in Civil Rights Law (Books)
- #3,498 in Professional & Technical
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About the author
Michele Goodwin is an author, commentator, public speaker, and professor. Her editorials appear in the LA Times, NY Times, Huffington Post, AlterNet, Politico, Forbes, Chicago Sun Times, and other prominent news media.
She is a Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine with appointments at the School of Law, Program in Public Health, Department of Criminology, Law, & Society, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Center for Psychology and Law. She is the founder and director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at UC Irvine School of Law and its internationally acclaimed Reproductive Justice Initiative. Professor Goodwin is one of the world’s leading authorities on the regulation of medicine, science, and biotechnology. Her publications include five books and over 70 articles and book chapters on law’s regulation of the human body, including civil and criminal regulation of pregnancy and reproduction, reproductive technologies, human trafficking (for organs, sex, and marriage), and tissue and organ transplantation. Her recent works appear in or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, and Texas Law Review, among others.
For more information, visit her website: michelebgoodwin.com
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024This a scholarly treatment of the issues surrounding the women of childbearing age. A pregnant woman has enough to deal with without being threatened by prosecutors and lawyers should she have to terminate her pregnancy for legitimate reasons--health, financial, or any other reason. It is her body her risk and nobody else's! The antiabortionists don't care! Just put women and their physicians in jail. We cannot return to pre-Roe. I'm old enough to know from personal experience the desperation a pregnant, poor, unmarried woman.
experienced. Justice demands that the government--federal, state, county. or city--have no interest in these matters.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023Beautiful book and I highly recommend it. A MUST read
- Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2022I’m still reading this but I feel like it’s important to understand the legal ramifications of the new normal
- Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2021I’m purchasing at least 2 or 3 more copies; especially for the young women in my life that are Activist & concerned about the declining Rights that Must be in place for Women to maintain our hard fought & hard won progress!!!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2024As a woman and healthcare provider deeply concerned about the state of reproductive healthcare in this country I would recommend reading this book. Women are human beings not incubators and abortion is healthcare vital healthcare for many women. To think otherwise is deny a living breathing woman a right to life not a “potential” person. A woman who could have living children, a husband, sisters, brothers, a mother, father. I challenge you to claim to call yourself a Christian when you hold those beliefs.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020Has some great material but a little to academic for my taste.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2022I've noticed that the font size in many books is getting smaller. I've been looking forward to reading this book but found the font size to be impossible to read...the smallest print I've seen. Will be returning the book and looking for alternatives...
- Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2022Inside the. Womb provides a deep understanding of how religion, politics, and policies have been weaponized as a decisive tool to demonize and manipulate the thoughts of the global population to minimize basic human rights!