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Reproducing Narrative (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Thomson, Michael

 
9781138331211: Reproducing Narrative (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113833121X ISBN 13: 9781138331211
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses. Recognizing that these dialogues are heavily imprecated in broader social, political and economic discourses it is contended that responses to reproductive issues are influenced and possibly determined, by non-reproductive concerns both at a parochial and more general level. Whilst a number of such influential narratives are recognized the book concentrates on the narratives of gender which appear implicit within the discourses and practices considered. Given the productive nature of discourse and the traditional premising of gender on sexual difference it becomes apparent that the explicit figuring of the female reproductive body becomes a means of realizing the implicit gender narratives within these discourses. Privileged medico-legal discourses become understood as a technology of gender - an important site at which gender is constituted.

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Michael Thomson

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113833121X
ISBN 13 
9781138331211
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
246