The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 192 pagini
This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen. The author draws on rights literature, biopolitical scholarship, and a gender-studies perspective as a foundation for rethinking the sovereign relationship. In approaching the politicization of reproductive space from this direction, the study resituates the role of rights and rights-granting within the sovereign relationship. A second theme running throughout the book explores the international implications of these arguments and addresses the role of abortion, adultery and rape legislation in constructing civilizational relationships. In particular, by focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, France and Italy as case studies, the book presents a discussion of what 'Europe' is and the role of sexuality and reproduction in defining it.

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Colonialism
13
The Biopolitical Womb
27
Consent and Interwar Reproduction
41
Bodily Integrity after the Second World
56
3
71
4
127
5
138
Women and the Political Norm
149
Conclusion
175
Index
189
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Ruth A. Miller is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

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