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Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium: Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality, cartea 11

Editat de Marcia C. Inhorn
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2007
Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781845454067
ISBN-10: 1845454065
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
Seria Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality

Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Marcia C. Inhorn is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of four books on the subject. Her publications include Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, winner of Eileen Basker Prize for outstanding research in gender and health), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge Press, 2003).

Cuprins

Preface Marcia C. Inhorn Introduction: Defining Women's Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies Marcia C. Inhorn Appendix List of Abbreviations PART I: REPRODUCTION AND DISRUPTION: REDEFINING THE CONTOURS OF NORMALCY Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Disruption: Paradoxes of Nature and Professionalism in Contemporary American Childbearing Caroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel Scherrer Chapter 2. Designing a Woman-Centered Health Care Approach to Pregnancy Loss: Lessons from Feminist Models of Childbirth Linda Layne Chapter 3. Enlarging Reproduction, Screening Disability Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg Chapter 4. Openness in Adoption: Re-Thinking FamilyA" in the US Harold D. Grotevant PART II: REPRODUCTION, GENDER AND BIOPOLITICS: lOCAL-GLOBAL INTERSECIONS AND CONTESTATATIONS Chapter 5. Can Gender EquityA" in Prenatal Genetic Services Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority? C. H. Browner Chapter 6. When the Personal is Political: Contested Reproductive Strategies among West African Migrants in France Carolyn Sargent Chapter 7. Reproductive Disruptions and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim World Marcia C. Inhorn Chapter 8. The Final Disruption? Biopolitics of Post-Reproductive Life Margaret Lock List of Contributors Bibliography Index

Recenzii

This anthology contains important entries from many award-winning senior ethnologists and cultural or medical anthropologists coming from various theoretical perspectives but all addressing intersecting levels of inequality.A" * Science & Society