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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Michie, Helena. Confinements: fertility and infertility in contemporary culture / Helena Michie, Naomi R. Cahn. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8135-2432-6 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-8135-2433-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Human reproductive technologySocial aspects. 2. Pregnancy literature. 3. Infertility literature. 4. WomenSocialization. 5. Feminist theory. 6. Feminist criticism. I. Cahn, Naomi R. II. Title. RG133.5.M53 1997
362.1'98178dc21
97-1779 CIP
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Copyright 1997 by Helena Michie and Naomi R. Cahn All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, Livingston Campus, Bldg. 4161, P.O. Box 5062, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. The only exception to this prohibition is "fair use" as defined by U.S. copyright law.
Manufactured in the United States of America
To Abigail, Louisa, Ross, Scott, and Tony
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part One
The Pregnant Body
Chapter 1
Confinements
17
Closer to Home: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy
17
Confinement Outside the Home: The Institutionalization of Pregnant, Crack-Addicted Women
31
Chapter 2
Unnatural Births: Cesarian Sections and Pain Management in the Natural Childbirth Movement
45
Chapter 3
Making Choices, Making Babies
69
Part Two
The Infertile Body
Chapter 4
Displacements
95
Chapter 5
The Nature of Infertility
119
Chapter 6
Autonomy, Control, and Fertility
137
Conclusion: Advice about Advice
163
Notes
167
Works Cited
171
Index
179
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Helena would like first of all to thank Paula Sanders, whose suggestion that she write about pregnancy instead of obsessing over it, although perhaps not followed to the letter, helped to produce this book. Thanks also to the Feminist Reading Group at Rice University and the Faculty Feminist Reading Group at the University of Vermont, especially Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, who managed to disagree with almost everything I said in a most generous and helpful way. I am indebted to the many people who heard and/or read versions of individual chapters, especially Philip Barrish, Louise Penner, and the manuscript-magical Theresa Munisteri. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the perhaps more diffuse but transformative influence on this book and on my thinking more generally of Paul Morrison, whose internalized voice helps me in the project of resisting what he calls "mammalian thinking." While I do not know whether it is usual or appropriate to thank one's co-author, I want to mark and to celebrate my many collaborations with Naomi Cahn, which began in a college newspaper office when I was seventeen and which I hope will extend beyond this book. I do not want to speak of the contributions of my husband, Scott Derrick, in the language of debt: instead I thank him now as always for inestimable gifts of time, intelligence, and affection. Without Ross Michie-Derrick this would have been a book on the Victorian novel.
Naomi would like to thank Louise Penner for transforming information in legal footnotes into MLA-style endnotes; my physicians, including my brother-in-law, who provides an example of what a reproductive endocrinologist should be; and my parents and sister, for their past and ongoing support. I also thank Helena Ross Michie for her wonderful collaborations, and for her much needed support both throughout our work together, and throughout my different "confinements" (which ultimately lasted slightly less time than did the writing of this book). Tony Gambino
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