Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject 1134163568, 9781134163564

Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. Ho

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Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject
1134163568, 9781134163564

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