Invisible Labours

Aimee Louise Middlemiss is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include reproduction, death, personhood, kinship, embodiment, and gender.

Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Invisible Labours



Part I: the Consequences of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss



Chapter 1. ‘You Don’t Have a Choice, You Have to Do It’: Diagnosis of the Foetal Body and the Determination of Healthcare Trajectories for Pregnant Women

Chapter 2. ‘They’re Not Supposed to Deal with this Kind of Thing’: Ontological Boundary Work, Discipline, and Obstetric Violence

Chapter 3. What Counts as a Baby and Who Counts as a Mother? Civil Registration and Ontological Politics

Chapter 4. Pregnancy Remains, a Baby, or the Corpse of a Child? Governance Classifications of the Dead Foetal Body



Part II: Disruption and Resistance in Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss



Chapter 5. ‘It Wasn’t All a Figment of My Imagination’: Ontological Disruption and Embodiment 

Chapter 6. ‘I Wanted People to Know That They Were My Babies’: Kinship as an Ontology of Resistance



Conclusion: Making Visible the Labours of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss



References

Index