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A Case against Pregnancy Contracts: Embodied Selves, Liberal Theory and the Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Mary Lyndon Shanley*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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