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Other Mothers: Toward an Ethic of Postmaternal Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Meredith W. Michaels
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Abstract

This essay attempts a deliberately perverse interpretation of die new reproductive practices (e.g., contract pregnancy, in vitro fertilization, etc.) in an effort to rethink maternal subjectivity and the bodies that might accompany it.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Spring 1996 , pp. 49 - 70
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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