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Reproduction, Globalization, and the State – New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

Autor Carole H. Browner, Carolyn F. Sargent
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2011
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on the impact of transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies on the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Their fascinating ethnographies, based in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, paternity tests, sex work, and humanitarian assistance. Contributors address the methodological challenges confronting anthropologists conducting research on globalization, including ways of combining fine-grained ethnography with analyses of large-scale political, economic, and ideological forces. Their essays illuminate complex interactions among global and state population policies and politics; public health, human rights, and feminist movements; diverse medical systems; religious practices, doctrines, and institutions; intimate relationships, and individual aspirations.Contributors: Aditya Bharadwaj ; Caroline H. Bledsoe ; Carole H. Browner ; Junjie Chen ; Aimee R. Eden ; Susan L. Erikson; Didier Fassin ; Claudia Lee Williams Fonseca ; Ellen Gruenbaum; Matthew Gutmann; Marcia C. Inhorn; Mark B. Padilla; Rayna Rapp; Lisa Ann Richey; Carolyn Sargent; Papa Sow; Cecilia Van Hollen; Linda Whiteford
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822349600
ISBN-10: 0822349604
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 168 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Foreword / Rayna Rapp ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent 1
Part I. Global Technologies, State Policies, and Local Realities/ Introduction to Part I 19
1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method / Susan L. Erickson 23
2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing the Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China / Junjie Chen 38
3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico / Matthew Gutmann 53
4. Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVS and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township / Lisa Ann Richey 68
5. Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen 83
6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism / Ellen Gruenbaum 96
Part II. Biotechnology, Biocommerce, and Body Commodification/ Introduction to Part II 111
7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India / Aditya Bharadwaj 113
8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State / Marcia C. Inhorn 126
9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca 138
Part III. Consequences of Population Movements for Agency, Structure, and Reproductive Processes/ Introduction to Part III 155
10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas / Mark B. Padilla 159
11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa Sow 175
12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France / Carolyn F. Sargent 192
13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization / Carole H. Browner 204
14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance / Linda M. Whiteford and Aimee R. Eden 224
Epilogue. The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations / Didier Fassin 239
References 249
Contributors 277
Index 281

Recenzii

"Reproduction, Globalization, and the State fills crucial research gaps. The strongest chapters not only identify and explore the competing forces that conspire to produce the specific (and dynamic) local environments in which individuals’ reproductive decisions occur, but also theorise convincingly about the causal pathways that link these forces. As a result, these chapters illuminate the motivations behind behaviour or decisions that might otherwise seem opaque or unexpected" Andrea Lynch, Gender & Development
"This new volume is a welcome and timely addition to the rapidly transforming landscape of reproduction worldwide. While each author has an impressive grip on local circumstances, they also show how those are--inevitably--shaped by state policies or inaction. Bringing sophisticated approaches to theory and method that are helpfully elaborated in the editors’ introduction, the fourteen cases--written by many of the outstanding researchers known for their ethnographic research on reproduction--cover the planet, from China to India to Sudan, while exploring many of the key topics of our time, from assisted reproductive technologies to sex work, fetal diagnosis, and humanitarian assistance. The foreword by Rayna Rapp and epilogue by Didier Fassin sharpen the framework for a book that will set the standard for research on reproduction and globalization relevant to anthropology, women’s studies, and sociology for the next decade.” Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction
"Reproduction, Globalization, and the State situates anthropological approaches to globalizing and gendered practices, politics, and policies of reproduction firmly in the twenty-first century. Building on Ginsburg and Rapp’s earlier path-breaking work, Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent’s welcome edited volume emphasizes the gendered dimensions-female and male-of reproduction ‘as a global process.’ This volume rich in multi-sited studies also contributes conceptually and methodologically to multi-disciplinary approaches to global ethnography and will enliven debates in research and teaching alike.” Gail Kligman, co-author of The Politics of Gender after Socialism
"These fascinating and provocative essays represent some of the most exciting scholarship on the anthropology of reproduction.”--Lynn M. Morgan, author of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos

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Conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health