ABSTRACT
Woman to Man as Nature is to Culture?" (1974), as the justification for "cultural language and imagery [to] continue to purvey a relatively devalued view of women."1 Alternately she has been identified as a sociopath whose insistence upon drinking, smoking, taking drugs and having unprotected sex forces the government to discipline her on behalf of the civil rights of her fetus, charging to "women's expense" the "costs of fetal rights," as both Rachel Roth and Cynthia Daniels have argued.2 Recently, the pregnant woman also has been featured as the occasion for a tremendous burst of scientific knowledge, and portrayed as a grateful consumer, passively pleased with the options presented by the new reproductive technologies.
