MODEST_WITNESS@SECOND_MILLENNIUM Page 1 23 Modest Witness The modest witness
is the sender and receiver of messages in my e-mail address. So let us investigate how this …

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine
how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal …

Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte
cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new …

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals,
clinics, and laboratories. But how and when did they come to be established and accepted …

This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on
gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist …

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably
malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself …

In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and
emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages …

X-rays, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and PET scans--medical imaging has become a
familiar part of modern health care today. A century ago, however, the idea of looking inside …

Winner of the 1998 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems It
is now possible for physicians to recognize that a pregnant woman's fetus is facing life …

Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the US end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss
is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and …