Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginsburg, Faye D.

Rapp, Rayna.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Anthropology online.

Anthropology online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control--Government policy.

Birth control.

Birth control--Political aspects.

Population policy.

Reproductive technology.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 450 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : conceiving the new world order / Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp

Part one : the politics of birth/control

A surfeit of bodies : population and the rationality of the state in post-Mao China / Ann Anagnost

Modern bodies, modern minds : midwifery and reproductive change in an African American community / Gertrude J. Fraser

Irniktakpunga! : sex determination and the Inuit struggle for birthing rights in northern Canada / John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert

Part two : stratified reproduction

"Like a mother to them" : stratified reproduction and West Indian childcare workers and employers in New York / Shellee Colen

On the outside looking in : the politics of lesbian motherhood / Ellen Lewin

Households headed by women : the politics of race, class, and gender / Leith Mullings

Early childbearing : what is the problem and who owns it? / Martha C. Ward

Part three : rethinking demography, biology, and social policy

Deadly reproduction among Egyptian women : maternal mortality and the medicalization of population control / Soheir A. Morsy

Coitus interruptus and family respectability in Catholic Europe : a Sicilian case study / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider

Women's reproductive practices and biomedicine : cultural conflicts and transformations in Nigeria / Tola Olu Pearce

Part four : disastrous circumstances and reproductive consequences

National honor and practical kinship : unwanted women and children / Veena Das

Political demography : the banning of abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman

From reproduction to HIV : blurring categories, shifting positions / Emily Martin

Physical and cultural reproduction in a post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami community / Sharon Stephens

Part 5 : what's so new about the new reproductive technologies

Public servants, professionals, and feminists : the politics of contraceptive research in Brazil / Carmen Barroso and Sônia Corrêa

The normalization of prenatal diagnostic screening / Carole H. Browner and Nancy Ann Press

Postmodern procreation : a cultural account of assisted reproduction / Sarah Franklin

Displacing knowledge : technology and the consequences for kinship / Marilyn Strathern

Part six : what's political about reproduction

Interrogating the concept of reproduction in the eighteenth century / Ludmilla Jordanova

The body as property : a feminist re-vision / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky

Reassessing reproduction in social theory / Annette B. Weiner

Misreading Darwin on reproduction : reductionism in evolutionary theory / Adrienne L. Zihlman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Anthropology online). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

849669813

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