Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work / Carisa R. Showden.

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

xviii, 286 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.

Conceiving agency : autonomy, freedom, and the creation of the embodied subject -- Should I stay or should I go? : Intimate partner violence and the agency in "victim" -- Mum's the word : assisted reproduction and the ideology of motherhood -- Working it : prostitution and the social construction of sexual desire -- Agency and feminist politics : the role of democratic coalitions.