Becker, Andrâea (Professor of sociology)

Get it out : on the politics of hysterectomy / Andrâea Becker. - 2025 - 193 pages cm - Health, society, and inequality series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "Not Your Mother's Hysterectomy -- How Hysterectomy's History Shapes Its Present -- Why Would Someone Want a Hysterectomy? -- Who Can "Choose" Hysterectomy? -- How Do People Feel About Hysterectomy? -- Navigating Access to Hysterectomy -- Conclusion: Imagining a World Where Hysterectomy is Choosable.

"Get It Out explores what it means to have a hysterectomy in a culture that devalues the uterus and the people who have them. Using a trans-inclusive, reproductive justice approach, this book explores how all reproductive choices at their core are unchoosable, as they are constrained by interlocking systems of inequality"-- Provided by publisher.

9781479826599

2024042743


Hysterectomy--History
Reproductive rights--History
Reproductive health--History
Surgery, Elective--History


Print books.

RG391 / .B43 2025