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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)



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