Choices women make [electronic resource] : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work / Carisa R. Showden.
Showden, Carisa Renae.
2011
HQ1206 .S497 2011eb
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Title Choices women make [electronic resource] : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work / Carisa R. Showden.
Author Showden, Carisa Renae.
ISBN 9780816676569 (electronic book)
9780816655953
0816655952
9780816655960
0816655960
Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 286 p.)
Call Number HQ1206 .S497 2011eb
Summary Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices--specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work. In Showden's analysis, women's agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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