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Pregnancy Test

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By (author): Prof. Karen Weingarten

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologiststhe majority of whom were mencontrol over information about womens bodies. However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 121 x 165mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Apr 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781501376542

About Prof. Karen Weingarten

Karen Weingarten is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College CUNY. Her first book was Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice 1880-1940. She has co-edited special issues for South Atlantic Quarterly and Womens Studies Quarterly and has written about reproduction abortion and disability in Hypatia Literature and Medicine College Literature and Medical Humanities among other places. She writes for Nursing Clio a peer-reviewed blog on the history of medicine and gender.

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