Feminist Studies articles from June 1997

Feminist Studies archives from June 1997

Feminist politics and fetal surgery: adventures of a research cowgirl on the reproductive frontier.
June 22, 1997... Doing ethnography is like trying to read (in the sense of "construct a reading of") a manuscript-foreign, faded, full of ellipses, incoherencies, suspicious emendations, and tendentious commentaries, but written not in conventionalized graphs of...

"Bare-handed" medicine and its elusive patients: the unstable construction of pregnant women and fetuses in Dominican obstetrics discourse. (Dominican Republic)
June 22, 1997... In the United States, discussions surrounding fetal personhood inevitably take place in the shadow of debates over the legality and availability of abortion. Consideration of the complexity, subtlety, and change evident in the cultural...

Breaking the silence: an agenda for a feminist discourse of pregnancy loss.
June 22, 1997... When we married in February 1985, my husband extracted a promise that I would finish my dissertation before getting pregnant. So full of joyful anticipation and confidence were we that when the date of my oral was set we both began announcing to...

Follicles. (poem)
June 22, 1997... Like blackberries on the gray screen. We counted three, the unripe one slipping inside the flesh of ovary. I felt the needle, pressure, its thin incision, the doctor's pulse when she said, "Let your legs fall to the side now." I was nowhere...

Into the river. (poem)
June 22, 1997... In three days they will open your ovaries for the eggs. From now to then I push as if across a thick river, my mind bent to the physical, while yesterday's nausea made you feel faint. I said, "Ask the doctors, but don't let them do...

To my first born. (poem)
June 22, 1997... 7/26/95 Six days before your birth in the embryologist's office, your father and I drive into the Sierra Nevada to a place called Squaw Valley, a two-mile meadow that runs between mountains made of I'm not sure what-granite or sediment, the...

Taking them. (poem)
June 22, 1997... This time the catheter entered without trouble. "Like a wet noodle," the doctor said. I lay, tilted back, gripping my husband's hand while our three children slid through the tube into my darker blood. Our children, I say.

Imagining the unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes.
June 22, 1997... Fetal personhood is not a "property" that can or will be "discovered" with greater scientific knowledge or increased technological capabilities, but is produced in and through the very practices that claim merely to "reveal" it. - Valerie...

Feeding the fetus: on interrogating the notion of maternal-fetal conflict.
June 22, 1997... TV Commercial: Scene one: A woman is in labor. She is in pain. Hospital staff and medical equipment surround her. Something is wrong; there are complications. The laboring woman wonders why this is happening, what went wrong? Scene two:...

Cross-cultural cyborgs: Greek and Canadian women's discourses on fetal ultrasound.
June 22, 1997... For millions of women in North America, Australia, Europe, and, increasingly, elsewhere as well, at least one or two ultrasounds have become an expected and routine part of pregnancy.(1) For physicians and sonographers, ultrasound represents a...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology.
June 22, 1997... Feminists are a cantankerous lot. We protest evidence of second-class citizenship for women. We argue when people say women's brains are too small to allow the flowering of true creative genius. We heckle and guffaw when experts explain that we...

Female Choices: The Sexual Behavior of Female Primates.
June 22, 1997... Feminists are a cantankerous lot. We protest evidence of second-class citizenship for women. We argue when people say women's brains are too small to allow the flowering of true creative genius. We heckle and guffaw when experts explain that we...

"A Feminist and Evolutionary Biologist Looks at Women."
June 22, 1997... Feminists are a cantankerous lot. We protest evidence of second-class citizenship for women. We argue when people say women's brains are too small to allow the flowering of true creative genius. We heckle and guffaw when experts explain that we...

What's Love Got to Do with It?
June 22, 1997... Feminists are a cantankerous lot. We protest evidence of second-class citizenship for women. We argue when people say women's brains are too small to allow the flowering of true creative genius. We heckle and guffaw when experts explain that we...

"Male Aggression Against Women: An Evolutionary Perspective."
June 22, 1997... Feminists are a cantankerous lot. We protest evidence of second-class citizenship for women. We argue when people say women's brains are too small to allow the flowering of true creative genius. We heckle and guffaw when experts explain that we...

Evolutionary psychology and Darwinian feminism. (antagonism caused by earlier scientific claims that males are by nature superior to women)
June 22, 1997... Feminists are a cantankerous lot. We protest evidence of second-class citizenship for women. We argue when people say women's brains are too small to allow the flowering of true creative genius. We heckle and guffaw when experts explain that we...

Regulating new reproductive and genetic technologies: a feminist view of recent Canadian government initiatives.
June 22, 1997... Recent well-publicized developments in genetic and reproductive technologies, such as the transfer of eggs or embryos from one woman to another, have caused much discussion among feminists. Despite this interest, however, there has been very...