When the Punishment is Pregnancy
Carceral Restriction of Abortion in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3018267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Sufrin (0000-0003-2739-9296, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-40 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360 |
| Publisher | American Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14506/ca34.1.06 |
| OpenAlex | W2919729272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 7 |
In the age of Donald Trump, women' s reproductive bodies have become even more public and regulated canvases for moral narratives of women' s worth as humans and for the state' s claim to their bodies.We have witnessed increasing legal restrictions on abortion access, the undermining of insurance coverage for contraception, and a spectacular federal intrusion preventing a young woman held in immigration detention from having an abortion.But to fully grasp the scope and implications of the state' s investment in women' s reproductive bodies under the Trump administration, we must also tend to the quieter, more opaque spaces in which reproduction is meticulously regulated: in particular, carceral institutions.For there are pregnant women in prisons and jails in the United States, who gestate largely unnoticed but within the enmeshed webs of carceral violence and reproductive control.In this brief essay, I illustrate how the adjudication and restriction of abortion access for incarcerated people exemplifies the intimate violence imposed by the state on women' s bodies, from the classic bodily control of regimented confinement to the structural and racialized violence of U.S. mass
Abortion · Biology · Criminology · Political science · Pregnancy · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Reproductive Rights and Abortion
"The "Struggling Good Mother
Sterilizing body‐territories
Refusing necropolitics‐as‐usual
Coerced motherhood behind bars
Gender as a proxy
Abortion at the edges
Punitive Pregnancy
Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit
The Carceral State
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |