9781501376542: Pregnancy Test
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1501376543 ISBN 13 : 9781501376542
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over information about women's bodies.

However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

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À propos de l?auteur

Karen Weingarten is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880- 1940 (2014).

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501376543
ISBN 13 
9781501376542
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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WordUnited GmbH
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