Reproductive disruptions : gender, technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 11.
Other Authors: Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Human reproduction > Social aspects.
Human reproduction > Political aspects.
Reproductive health > Social aspects.
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects.
Gender identity.
Feminism > Health aspects.
Reproduction.
Feminism.
Interpersonal Relations.
Politics.
Reproductive Behavior.
Reproductive Techniques.
Physical Description:xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Defining women's health: a dozen messages from more than 150 ethnographies / Marcia C. Inhorn
  • The dialectics of disruption: paradoxes of nature and professionalism in contemporary American childbearing / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel F. Scherrer
  • Designing a woman-centered health care approach to pregnancy loss: lessons from feminist models of childbirth / Linda Layne
  • Enlarging reproduction, screening disability / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg
  • Openness in adoption: re-thinking "family" in the US / Harold D. Grotevant
  • Can gender "equity" in prenatal genetic services unintentionally reinforce male authority? / C.H. Browner
  • When the personal is political: contested reproductive strategies among West African migrants in France / Carolyn Sargent
  • Reproductive disruptions and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim world / Marcia C. Inhorn
  • The final disruption? biopolitics of post-reproductive life / Margaret Lock.