Daniels, Cynthia R. : Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Cynthia R. Daniels is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
Review
"Daniels vividly depicts the darker side of intensified political attention to motherhood and childbirth...[She]
deftly exposes flaws in the scientific research supporting fetal-protection policies and points to troubling inconsistencies
in the policies themselves."
--Seana Shiffrin, Times Literary Supplement
"The strength of [this book], which should make it a classic in the field, is Daniels's use of very dramatic
case studies to draw the reader into a complicated theoretical discussion of what is at stake for women's equality
and citizenship."
--Wendy Sarvasy, Contemporary Sociology
Harvard University Press
March, 2000
Summary
No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and
pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect
a woman's rights?
