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Demographic anxieties : bodies, borders, and reproductive injustice in Palestine/Israel / Gala Rexer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rexer, Gala, author.
- Series:
- Reproductive justice ; 17.
- Reproductive justice : a new vision for the 21st century ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reproductive health--Government policy--Israel.
- Reproductive health.
- Reproductive rights--Palestine.
- Reproductive rights.
- Women, Palestinian Arab--Health and hygiene.
- Women, Palestinian Arab.
- Israel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- Demographic Anxieties examines how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women's reproductive freedom. Grounded in a Black feminist reproductive justice framework, this work foregrounds the sexual politics of settler colonialism by demonstrating how Israeli policies profoundly impact Palestinian women's reproductive rights, health, and decision-making. Based on in-depth interviews and more than two years of ethnographic research with Israeli medical staff and Palestinian women undergoing fertility treatment, the book takes Israeli hospitals, fertility departments, maternity wards, and infrastructures of care as sites of inquiry into the governance of Palestinians' lives. Demographic Anxieties examines everyday encounters between Palestinian patients and Jewish Israeli doctors and argues that, alongside spectacular and disastrous forms of Israeli state violence, we must also consider more quotidian forms of surveillance and control. Written from an anticolonial feminist perspective, it asks what Palestine, as a site of knowledge production, enables, complicates, or demands from a transnational feminist approach to reproductive justice.
- Contents:
- Population
- Infrastructures
- Hospitals
- Intimacies
- Bodies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed on October 22, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rexer, Gala. Demographic anxieties.
- ISBN:
- 9780520412545
- 0520412540
- OCLC:
- 1599580442
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000397732
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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