Risky Pregnancy: Liability, Blame, and Insurance in the Governance of Prenatal Harm

Authors

Roxanne Mykitiuk, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
Dayna Nadine Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Source Publication

UBC Law Review 43:2 (2011) pp. 311-360

Abstract

Feminist theory has exposed the body of the pregnant woman as one that is continuously made into the object of analysis and regulation, and feminist scholars have sought to understand the evolving contestation over the boundary between the woman and the fetus: the life sometimes conceptualized as part of her and other times as carried with her. Together, they are "not-one-but-not-two". "Always marked by race, class and ability" as Johnson notes, "the pregnant body is sometimes celebrated, sometimes reviled", and, as we will argue, always judged.

Comments

Credit notice for original publication: Mykitiuk, Roxanne, and Dayna Nadine Scott, “Risky Pregnancy: Liability, Blame, and Insurance in the Governance of Prenatal Harm” (2011) 43:2 UBC L Rev 311.

Repository Citation

Mykitiuk, Roxanne, and Dayna Nadine Scott. "Risky Pregnancy: Liability, Blame, and Insurance in the Governance of Prenatal Harm." UBC Law Review 43.2 (2011): 311-360.