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Article: From hazard to blessing to tragedy: representations of miscarriage in twentieth-century America.
- Article from:
- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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My miscarriage was a physical event, one that I found frightening and painful but also--as a scholar of reproduction who had read and written about pregnancy for years--interesting. It was a personal event, which saddened me because my husband and I looked forward to a baby; and, I soon discovered, it was a political event as well. Eleven weeks into the pregnancy, I was bleeding, bleeding, bleeding. How many "napkins?" the doctor asked. I was not counting napkins, but worrying about how to retrieve blood clots out of the toilet at 3 AM, as many health books advise. (I decided not to do so.) As the pains carne and went, the torrent of blood made what was happening very ...