At women's expense : state power and the politics of fetal rights /

Some 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...

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Main Author: Daniels, Cynthia R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Edition:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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