Reproductive Disruptions

Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

By: Marcia C. Inhorn (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 October 2007

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Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA)

Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption; the contested meanings of abortion; cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy; and the globalization of new pharmaceutical and assisted reproductive technologies. This breadth - with its explicit move from the "local" to the "global," from the realm of everyday reproductive practice to international programs and policies - illuminates most effectively the workings of power, the tensions between women's and men's reproductive agency, and various cultural and structural inequalities in reproductive health.

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"This volume engages with the politics of human reproduction and will prove an invaluable teaching resource in that field and beyond...[It] thus marks something of a watershed, and there are some fascinating tensions and contrasts to be found here." · JRAI

"This anthology contains important entries from many award-winning senior ethnologists and cultural or medical anthropologists coming from various theoretical perspectives but all addressing intersecting levels of inequality." · Science & Society

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Preface
Introduction: Defining Women's Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies	p. 1
Appendix	p. 35
Reproduction and Disruption: Redefining the Contours of Normalcy
The Dialectics of Disruption: Paradoxes of Nature and Professionalism in Contemporary American Childbearing	p. 47
Designing a Woman-Centered Health Care Approach to Pregnancy Loss: Lessons from Feminist Models of Childbirth	p. 79
Enlarging Reproduction, Screening Disability	p. 98
Openness in Adoption: Re-Thinking "Family" in the US	p. 122
Reproduction, Gender, and Biopolitics: Local-Global Intersections and Contestations
Can Gender "Equity" in Prenatal Genetic Services Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority?	p. 147
When the Personal is Political: Contested Reproductive Strategies among West African Migrants in France	p. 165
Reproductive Disruptions and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim World	p. 183
The Final Disruption? Biopolitics of Post-Reproductive Life	p. 200
List of Abbreviations	p. 225
List of Contributors	p. 227
Index	p. 231
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