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Gender before Birth Sex Selection in a Transnational Context / Rajani Bhatia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bhatia, Rajani, author.
- Series:
- Feminist technosciences.
- Feminist technosciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex preselection--Social aspects.
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book breaks new ground on the evolution and present technologies and practices of lifestyle sex selection, builds on and critiques feminist and STS theories of reproduction to develop the new concept of biopopulationism, and engages with the messy politics of sex selection in the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction: lifestyle sex selection
- From selecting sexed sperm and embryos to anticipating lifestyle sex selection
- Incorporating a new technology of hope into Fertility Inc.: the constitution of a maternal subject
- Extending into a global market: lifestyle sex selection as a cross-border practice
- Contesting the known: an arc of activism on sex selection in the United States
- Conclusion: toward a feminist intersectional perspective on sex selection.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295742946
- 0295742941
- OCLC:
- 1011543358
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