This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In a broad spectrum of essays, a group of feminist scholars and activists explore the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the centre of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the after-effects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Russia and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China.The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planni
This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In a broad spectrum of essays, a group of feminist scholars and activists explore the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the centre of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the after-effects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Russia and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China.The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planni
PREFACE
1. Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order
Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
ONE • THE POLITICS OF BIRTH/CONTROL
2. A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of the
State
in Post-Mao China
Ann Anagnost
3· Modern Bodies, Modern Minds: Midwifery and Reproductive
Change
in an African American Community
Gertrude]. Fraser
4· Irniktakpunga!: Sex Determination and the Inuit Struggle
for Birthing Rights in Northern Canada
John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert
TWO • STRATIFIED REPRODUCTION
5· "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West
Indian
Childcare Workers and Employers in New York
Shellee Colen
6. On the Outside Looking In: The Politics of Lesbian
Motherhood
Ellen Lewin
7· Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and
Gender
Leith Mullings
8. Early Childbearing: What Is the Problem and Who Owns It?
Martha C. Ward
THREE • RETHINKING DEMOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY,
AND SOCIAL POLICY
g. Deadly Reproduction among Egyptian Women: Maternal Mortality
and the Medicalization of Population Control
Soheir A. Morsy
10. Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic
Europe:
A Sicilian Case Study
Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider
11. Women's Reproductive Practices and Biomedicine:
Cultural Conflicts and Transformations in Nigeria
Tala Olu Pearce
FOUR • DISASTROUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND
REPRODUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES
12. National Honor and Practical Kinship: Unwanted Women and
Children
Veena Das
13. Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's
Romania
Gail Kligman
14. From Reproduction to HIV: Blurring Categories, Shifting
Positions
Emily Martin
15. Physical and Cultural Reproduction
in a Post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami Community
Sharon Stephens
FIVE • WHAT'S SO NEW ABOUT THE NEW
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES?
16. Public Servants, Professionals, and Feminists:
The Politics of Contraceptive Research in Brazil
Carmen Barroso and Sonia Correa
17. The Normalization of Prenatal Diagnostic Screening
Carole H. Browner and Nancy Ann Press
18. Postmodern Procreation: A Cultural Account of Assisted
Reproduction
Sarah Franklin
19. Displacing Knowledge: Technology and the Consequences for
Kinship
Marilyn Strathern
SIX • WHAT'S POLITICAL ABOUT REPRODUCTION?
20. Interrogating the Concept of Reproduction in the Eighteenth
Century
Ludmillajordanova
21. The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-vision
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
22. Reassessing Reproduction in Social Theory
Annette B. Weiner
23. Misreading Darwin on Reproduction:
Reductionism in Evolutionary Theory
Adrienne L. Zihlman
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Faye D. Ginsburg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University and the author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (California, 1989). Rayna Rapp is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research.
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