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Reproducing narrative

by Thomson, Michael

AbortionDiscourse analysisHealth and hygieneHuman reproductive technologyLanguageLaw and legislationSocial aspectsSocial aspects of Abortion

Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses. Recognising that these dialogues are heavily imbricated in social, political and economic discourses it is contended that responses to reproductive issues are influenced, and possibly determined, by non-reproductive concerns at both a parochial and more general level. Privileged medico-legal discourses become understood as technologies of gender-important sites at which gender is constituted.

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