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Of Homunculus Born: A Short History of Invisible Women
Contemporary anti-women’s organizations have had great success in recasting a fertilized ovum as a “preborn” or “unborn baby,” fueling opposition against abortion and birth control such as the Pill and the IUD. Their imagery of “baby at conception” and their frequent use of the male pronoun are strongly reminiscent of the homunculus, the image Nicolaas Hartsoeker drew in 1694 of a little man coiled in a sperm. Throughout Western history, a clear thread of male thought has placed “his” baby into her uterus, justifying male and governmental control over the whole woman. This book examines the history of male opinion about women’s participation in procreation and explores the status of women in classical Europe, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and today’s American procreative policies.
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Of Homunculus Born: A Short History of Invisible Women
Contemporary anti-women’s organizations have had great success in recasting a fertilized ovum as a “preborn” or “unborn baby,” fueling opposition against abortion and birth control such as the Pill and the IUD. Their imagery of “baby at conception” and their frequent use of the male pronoun are strongly reminiscent of the homunculus, the image Nicolaas Hartsoeker drew in 1694 of a little man coiled in a sperm. Throughout Western history, a clear thread of male thought has placed “his” baby into her uterus, justifying male and governmental control over the whole woman. This book examines the history of male opinion about women’s participation in procreation and explores the status of women in classical Europe, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and today’s American procreative policies.
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Of Homunculus Born: A Short History of Invisible Women

Of Homunculus Born: A Short History of Invisible Women

by Barbara Bonnekessen
Of Homunculus Born: A Short History of Invisible Women

Of Homunculus Born: A Short History of Invisible Women

by Barbara Bonnekessen

Overview

Contemporary anti-women’s organizations have had great success in recasting a fertilized ovum as a “preborn” or “unborn baby,” fueling opposition against abortion and birth control such as the Pill and the IUD. Their imagery of “baby at conception” and their frequent use of the male pronoun are strongly reminiscent of the homunculus, the image Nicolaas Hartsoeker drew in 1694 of a little man coiled in a sperm. Throughout Western history, a clear thread of male thought has placed “his” baby into her uterus, justifying male and governmental control over the whole woman. This book examines the history of male opinion about women’s participation in procreation and explores the status of women in classical Europe, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and today’s American procreative policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761857587
Publisher: University Press of America
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Pages: 156
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Barbara Bonnekessen earned her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Kansas. She is currently on the faculty at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where she teaches courses in cultural anthropology and women’s and gender studies and directs the Women’s Resource Center.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Of Seeds and Food: DWEM Power

Chapter Two: Zygote Power

Chapter Three: The Rise of the Good Woman

Chapter Four: An Interlude for a Revolutionary Make-Over — 30 Days to Biblical Womanhood

Chapter Five: God’s Sociobiology and Uncommon Good

Chapter Six: Can Woman Be Saved?

Bibliography



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[This] book establishes a solid conceptual framework of the history, philosophy, and scientific and religious concepts of invisible women. In this conceptual framework, the author provides well-documented arguments, analyses, and insights.. .. The research presented in the book is well-grounded in the feminist approach and holds well to a feminist theme throughout.. .. It is a good contribution to the feminist literature and individuals interested in this type of reading [will] find valuable insights. —Diane Calloway-Graham, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, Utah State University

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