Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work

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Label

Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work

Title remainder

agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work

Statement of responsibility

Carisa R. Showden

Creator

• Showden, Carisa Renae

Subject

• Prostitution
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Prostitution
• Våld i familjen
• Autonomi
• Feminist theory
• Prostitution
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
• Äggdonationer
• Electronic books
• Kvinnor
• Women -- Identity
• Feminist theory
• Women -- Identity
• Autonomy (Psychology)
• Family violence
• Family violence
• Reproductive technology
• Feministisk teori
• Autonomy (Psychology)
• Reproductive technology

Language

eng

Summary

Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices--specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work. In Showden's analysis, women's agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deploy

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

305.4201

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1206

LC item number

.S497 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography