Invisible Labours

The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England

Aimee Louise Middlemiss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-257-6 (ISBN)

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Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductive politics of this specific category of pregnancy loss in England.

Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labours describes the reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then understand their pregnancy through kinship with the unborn baby.

Aimee Louise Middlemiss is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include reproduction, death, personhood, kinship, embodiment, and gender.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Invisible Labours

Part I: the Consequences of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss

Chapter 1. ‘You Don’t Have a Choice, You Have to Do It’: Diagnosis of the Foetal Body and the Determination of Healthcare Trajectories for Pregnant Women

Chapter 2. ‘They’re Not Supposed to Deal with this Kind of Thing’: Ontological Boundary Work, Discipline, and Obstetric Violence

Chapter 3. What Counts as a Baby and Who Counts as a Mother? Civil Registration and Ontological Politics

Chapter 4. Pregnancy Remains, a Baby, or the Corpse of a Child? Governance Classifications of the Dead Foetal Body

Part II: Disruption and Resistance in Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss

Chapter 5. ‘It Wasn’t All a Figment of My Imagination’: Ontological Disruption and Embodiment

Chapter 6. ‘I Wanted People to Know That They Were My Babies’: Kinship as an Ontology of Resistance

Conclusion: Making Visible the Labours of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-257-3 / 1805392573
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-257-6 / 9781805392576
Zustand	Neuware