TY  - GEN
T1  - The haunting fetus : abortion, sexuality, and the spirit world in Taiwan
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Moskowitz, Marc L.
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaʻi Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn606554871
AB  - The Haunting Fetus focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt its family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on in the Taiwanese press, it has not been studied systematically in relation to Taiwan in either English or Chinese. This fascinating study looks at a range of topics pertaining to the belief in haunting fetuses, including abortion, sexuality, the changing nature of familial power structures, the economy, and traditional and modern views of the spirit world in Taiwan and in traditional Chinese thought. It addresses the mental, moral, and psychological aspects of abortion within the context of modernization processes and how these ramify through historical epistemologies and folk traditions. The author illustrates how images of fetus-ghosts are often used to manipulate women, either through fear or guilt, into paying exorbitant sums of money for appeasement. He argues at the same time, however, that although appeasement can be expensive, it provides important psychological comfort to women who have had abortions as well as a much-needed means to project personal and familial feelings of transgression onto a safely displaced object. In addition to bringing to the surface underlying tensions within a family, appeasing fetus-ghosts, like other dealings with supernatural beings in Chinese religions, allows for atonement through economic avenues. The paradox in which fetus-ghost appeasement simultaneously exploits and assists evinces the true complexity of the issue--and of religious and gender studies as a whole.
OP  - 206
CN  - BL1975 .M67 2001
SN  - 9780824864774
SN  - 0824864778
SN  - 0824823540
SN  - 0824824288
SN  - 9780824823542
SN  - 9780824824280
KW  - Taiwan : Religious life and customs.
KW  - Fetus : Religious aspects.
KW  - Emotions.
KW  - Women.
KW  - Religion.
KW  - Social psychology.
KW  - Fetus.
KW  - Sociology.
KW  - Ethnology.
KW  - Human behavior.
KW  - Social sciences.
KW  - Humanities.
KW  - Anthropology.
KW  - Anatomy.
KW  - Buddhism.
KW  - Culture.
KW  - Pregnant women.
KW  - Guilt.
KW  - Nuclear families.
KW  - Families.
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Women
KW  - Religion
KW  - Psychology, Social
KW  - Fetus
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Anthropology, Cultural
KW  - Social Behavior
KW  - Reproductive Physiological Phenomena
KW  - Sexual Behavior
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena
KW  - Persons
KW  - Embryonic Structures
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Anatomy
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Named Groups
KW  - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
KW  - Phenomena and Processes
KW  - Ceremonial Behavior
KW  - Aborted Fetus
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Culture
KW  - Pregnant People.
KW  - Family
KW  - Religious Philosophies
KW  - Guilt
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Animal Structures
KW  - Nuclear Family
KW  - Fœtus : Aspect religieux.
KW  - Taiwan : Vie religieuse.
KW  - Émotions.
KW  - Femmes.
KW  - Psychologie sociale.
KW  - Fœtus.
KW  - Sociologie.
KW  - Ethnologie.
KW  - Comportement humain.
KW  - Sciences sociales.
KW  - Sciences humaines.
KW  - Anthropologie.
KW  - Anatomie.
KW  - Bouddhisme.
KW  - Femmes enceintes.
KW  - Familles.
KW  - Culpabilité.
KW  - emotion.
KW  - religion (discipline)
KW  - social psychology.
KW  - sociology.
KW  - human behavior.
KW  - social sciences.
KW  - humanities.
KW  - anthropology.
KW  - anatomy.
KW  - culture note.
KW  - ethnology.
KW  - social anthropology.
KW  - women (female humans)
KW  - guilt.
KW  - culture (concept)
KW  - RELIGION.
KW  - Theology.
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT : Spirituality : Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
KW  - RELIGION : Comparative Religion.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Abortion & Birth Control.
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Pregnant women
KW  - Nuclear families
KW  - Human behavior
KW  - Families
KW  - Fetus : Religious aspects
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - Schwangerschaftsabbruch
KW  - Philosophy & Religion.
KW  - Eastern Religions.
ER  -