Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Feminist Praxis, Reproductive Powers, and Medical Models -- Praxis, Approach, Method -- Shifting Powers in Women's Reproduction -- Reproductive Frames -- Unmet Needs Taken Out of Context -- Feminist Analysis of Modern Reproduction -- Women's Struggles for Reproductive Agency -- Controversial, Heartfelt, Reproductive Politics -- Additional Voices and Experiences -- Defiant Women -- The Plan of the Book -- 2. New Reproductive Technologies: Medicalizations of Pregnancy, Birth, Reproduction, and Infertility -- Standards of Care -- Peripheral Women -- Prenatal Screening -- International "Choices" -- Sex Selection -- Reproductive Technologies' Impact on Abortion Politics -- Cultural Shifts -- Conclusion -- 3. The Human Genome Project: Designer Genes -- A Conceptual Shift -- Geneticization and Topographies of Reproductive Power -- Increasing Medicalization -- Eugenic Concerns -- Race, Class, and Genome Power -- Abilities and Diversities -- The "Gay Gene" Quest -- Enhancements and Improvements -- The Mixed Blessing of Knowing -- The Family Impact of Misattributed Paternity -- Diseased Futures -- Reproduction, Parenting, and Abortion -- Impact of Mothers -- Economic and Market Exchanges -- Human Diversity Genome Project -- Social Impact -- Breast Cancer Heartbreaks -- Ownership and Patenting -- Genetic, Intentional, Enhanced Babies -- ELSI -- Gender, Power, and Bioethics -- Conclusion -- 4. Abortion Politics: Discourses on Lives -- Revealed History and Political Action -- Subversive Behaviors -- Telling Women's Stories -- Telling Fetuses' Stories -- Roe's Progress and Limitations -- Abortion, Women's Praxis of the Ethic of Care -- Abortion Politics in Local Communities -- Social Movements, Abortion, and Culture Wars -- The Context for Urban Abortion Battles.

Greenville and Columbia, South Carolina -- The Grass-Roots Issue Context -- Partial-Birth, Late-Term Abortion Ban -- A National Conflagration Negotiated Locally One Day at a Time -- Interest Group Representations of Reproductive Politics -- Abortion Politics -- Conclusion -- 5. Adoption and Surrogacy: Children as Commodities, Wombs for Rent -- Adoption Markets -- Surrogacy -- Fragile Power of Mothers -- Full Surrogacy -- Surrogacy Policy Recommendations -- The Patriarchal, Nuclear Family Paradigm -- Voices Silenced -- Conclusion -- 6. Social Controls and Reproductive Politics: Punitive Monitoring of Pregnant Women -- Framing -- Legal and Illegal Drugs and Pregnant Women -- Framing/Reframing -- Criminalizing Prenatal Care -- Coerced and Punitive Contraception -- Punitive Monitoring and Control -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: The Changing Geographies of Motherhood and Reproduction -- Feminist Praxis: Political Challenge -- Feminist Praxis: Imperfect Individuals and Connected Communities -- Feminist Justice -- Conclusion -- Bibliogaphy -- Index.