{"product_id":"pregnancy-without-birth-a-feminist-philosophy-of-miscarriage-hardcover","title":"Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictoria Browne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePregnancy is so thoroughly entangled with birth and babies in the popular imagination that a pregnancy which ends in miscarriage consistently appears as a failure or a waste of time - indeed, as not proper to pregnancy at all. But in this compelling book, Victoria Browne argues that reflection on miscarriage actually deepens and expands our understanding of pregnancy, forcing us to consider what pregnancy can amount to besides the production of a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy exploring common themes within personal accounts of miscarriage-including feelings of failure, self-blame and being 'stuck in limbo'-Pregnancy Without Birth critically interrogates teleological discourses and disciplinary ideologies that elevate birth as pregnancy's 'natural' and 'normal' endpoint. As well as politicizing miscarriage as a feminist issue, the book articulates an alternative intercorporeal philosophy of pregnancy which embraces variation, invites us to sit with ambiguity, contingency and suspension, and enables us to see subjective agency in all pregnancies, even as they are shaped by biological, political and social forces beyond our personal control. What emerges is a relational feminist politics of full-spectrum solidarity, social justice and care (rather than individualized choice and responsibility), which breaks down presumed oppositions between pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth and live birth, and liberates pregnancy from reproductive futurism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Browne\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Political Theory at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is co-author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics: An Introduction \u003c\/i\u003e(3rd ed., 2018), author of \u003ci\u003eFeminism, Time and Non-Linear History\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and has edited multiple volumes including \u003ci\u003eVulnerability and the Politics of Care\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eMotherhood in Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). She is also a member of the editorial collective \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782705774880,"sku":"9781350279681","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/67d85ac55d926cb89264fcfda44514a2.webp?v=1780576979","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pregnancy-without-birth-a-feminist-philosophy-of-miscarriage-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}