We Are Animals

We Are Animals

Essays on the Nature and Politics of Motherhood

Case, Jennifer

Trinity University Press,U.S.

10/2024

224

Mole

Inglês

9781595343017

15 a 20 dias

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We Are Animals ......................................................... 4

BabyCenter: An Essay on Place ....................................... 19

On Contemplating a Second Child .................................... 34

Unintended............................................................... 44

A Political Pregnancy ................................................... 49

Birth (Un)Medicalized: A Case Study.................................. 65

A Cost Accounting of Birth ............................................. 83

To Hatch Intimacy from Despair....................................... 95

Birthwork in the Bible Belt............................................... 110

On the Silence of Regret .................................................. 129

On Breast Pumps and Bovines ........................................... 139

The Mother-Infant Dyad ................................................. 158

On Race and Motherhood in America.................................. 176

Animals on the Eve of Extinction....................................... 187

Additional Thoughts on Control.......................................... 198

Message for the Animal Mother....................................... 213
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