Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction

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Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction

edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp

University of California Press, c1995

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  • : pbk

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: hard ISBN 9780520089136

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This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In a broad spectrum of essays, a group of feminist scholars and activists explore the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the centre of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the after-effects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Russia and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China.The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planni
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: pbk ISBN 9780520089143

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This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the aftereffects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Norway and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China. The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planning.

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PREFACE 1. Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp ONE • THE POLITICS OF BIRTH/CONTROL 2. A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of the State in Post-Mao China Ann Anagnost 3· Modern Bodies, Modern Minds: Midwifery and Reproductive Change in an African American Community Gertrude]. Fraser 4· Irniktakpunga!: Sex Determination and the Inuit Struggle for Birthing Rights in Northern Canada John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert TWO • STRATIFIED REPRODUCTION 5· "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York Shellee Colen 6. On the Outside Looking In: The Politics of Lesbian Motherhood Ellen Lewin 7· Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender Leith Mullings 8. Early Childbearing: What Is the Problem and Who Owns It? Martha C. Ward THREE • RETHINKING DEMOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND SOCIAL POLICY g. Deadly Reproduction among Egyptian Women: Maternal Mortality and the Medicalization of Population Control Soheir A. Morsy 10. Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic Europe: A Sicilian Case Study Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider 11. Women's Reproductive Practices and Biomedicine: Cultural Conflicts and Transformations in Nigeria Tala Olu Pearce FOUR • DISASTROUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND REPRODUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES 12. National Honor and Practical Kinship: Unwanted Women and Children Veena Das 13. Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania Gail Kligman 14. From Reproduction to HIV: Blurring Categories, Shifting Positions Emily Martin 15. Physical and Cultural Reproduction in a Post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami Community Sharon Stephens FIVE • WHAT'S SO NEW ABOUT THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES? 16. Public Servants, Professionals, and Feminists: The Politics of Contraceptive Research in Brazil Carmen Barroso and Sonia Correa 17. The Normalization of Prenatal Diagnostic Screening Carole H. Browner and Nancy Ann Press 18. Postmodern Procreation: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction Sarah Franklin 19. Displacing Knowledge: Technology and the Consequences for Kinship Marilyn Strathern SIX • WHAT'S POLITICAL ABOUT REPRODUCTION? 20. Interrogating the Concept of Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century Ludmillajordanova 21. The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-vision Rosalind Pollack Petchesky 22. Reassessing Reproduction in Social Theory Annette B. Weiner 23. Misreading Darwin on Reproduction: Reductionism in Evolutionary Theory Adrienne L. Zihlman NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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