Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Michele Goodwin

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

Author: Michele Goodwin
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Book Title
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
Author
Michele Goodwin
ISBN
9781107030176
Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Michele GoodwinPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/12/2020ISBN: 9781107030176Pages: 334Weight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.10h x 7.70w x 0.90d
Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Michele Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/12/2020
ISBN: 9781107030176
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.70w x 0.90d
Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Michele Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/12/2020
ISBN: 9781107030176
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.70w x 0.90d