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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Invisible Labours
Part I: the Consequences of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 1. ‘You Don’t Have a Choice, You Have to Do It’: Diagnosis of the Foetal Body and the Determination of Healthcare Trajectories for Pregnant Women
Chapter 2. ‘They’re Not Supposed to Deal with this Kind of Thing’: Ontological Boundary Work, Discipline, and Obstetric Violence
Chapter 3. What Counts as a Baby and Who Counts as a Mother? Civil Registration and Ontological Politics
Chapter 4. Pregnancy Remains, a Baby, or the Corpse of a Child? Governance Classifications of the Dead Foetal Body
Part II: Disruption and Resistance in Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 5. ‘It Wasn’t All a Figment of My Imagination’: Ontological Disruption and Embodiment
Chapter 6. ‘I Wanted People to Know That They Were My Babies’: Kinship as an Ontology of Resistance
Conclusion: Making Visible the Labours of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss
References
Index
Invisible Labours
The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England
Aimee Louise Middlemiss
256 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-257-6 Hb Published (February 2024)