{"product_id":"at-women-s-expense","title":"At Women’s Expense","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome say the fetus is the “tiniest citizen.” If so, then the bodies of  women themselves have become political arenas—or, recent cases suggest,  battlefields. A cocaine-addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking  through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must  prove infertility to keep their jobs. A terminally ill woman is forced  to undergo a cesarean section. No longer concerned with conception or  motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and  pregnancy itself, on a woman’s relationship with the fetus. How exactly,  Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman’s rights? Are they  different from a man’s? And how has the state helped determine the  difference? The answers, rigorously pursued throughout this book, give  us a clear look into the state’s paradoxical role in gender politics—as  both a challenger of injustice and an agent of social control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  benchmark legal cases concerned with forced medical treatment, fetal  protectionism in the workplace, and drug and alcohol use and abuse,  Daniels shows us state power at work in the struggle between fetal  rights and women’s rights. These cases raise critical questions about  the impact of gender on women’s standing as citizens, and about the  relationship between state power and gender inequality. Fully  appreciating the difficulties of each case, the author probes the  subtleties of various positions and their implications for a deeper  understanding of how a woman’s reproductive capability affects her  relationship to state power. In her analysis, the need to defend women’s  right to self-sovereignty becomes clear, but so does the need to define  further the very concepts of self-sovereignty and privacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  intensity of the debate over fetal rights suggests the depth of the  current gender crisis and the force of the feelings of social  dislocation generated by reproductive politics. Breaking through the  public mythology that clouds these debates, \u003ci\u003eAt Women’s Expense\u003c\/i\u003e makes a hopeful beginning toward liberating woman’s body within the body politic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222060552536,"sku":"9780674050440","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/at-women-s-expense","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}