Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp.
| Other author | Ginsburg, Faye D. |
| Other author | Rapp, Rayna |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 450 p.). |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1759337 |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : conceiving the new world order / Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- Part one : the politics of birth/control -- A surfeit of bodies : population and the rationality of the state in post-Mao China / Ann Anagnost -- Modern bodies, modern minds : midwifery and reproductive change in an African American community / Gertrude J. Fraser -- Irniktakpunga! : sex determination and the Inuit struggle for birthing rights in northern Canada / John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert -- Part two : stratified reproduction -- "Like a mother to them" : stratified reproduction and West Indian childcare workers and employers in New York / Shellee Colen -- On the outside looking in : the politics of lesbian motherhood / Ellen Lewin -- Households headed by women : the politics of race, class, and gender / Leith Mullings -- Early childbearing : what is the problem and who owns it? / Martha C. Ward -- Part three : rethinking demography, biology, and social policy -- Deadly reproduction among Egyptian women : maternal mortality and the medicalization of population control / Soheir A. Morsy -- Coitus interruptus and family respectability in Catholic Europe : a Sicilian case study / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- Women's reproductive practices and biomedicine : cultural conflicts and transformations in Nigeria / Tola Olu Pearce -- Part four : disastrous circumstances and reproductive consequences -- National honor and practical kinship : unwanted women and children / Veena Das -- Political demography : the banning of abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman -- From reproduction to HIV : blurring categories, shifting positions / Emily Martin -- Physical and cultural reproduction in a post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami community / Sharon Stephens -- Part 5 : what's so new about the new reproductive technologies -- Public servants, professionals, and feminists : the politics of contraceptive research in Brazil / Carmen Barroso and Sônia Corrêa -- The normalization of prenatal diagnostic screening / Carole H. Browner and Nancy Ann Press -- Postmodern procreation : a cultural account of assisted reproduction / Sarah Franklin -- Displacing knowledge : technology and the consequences for kinship / Marilyn Strathern -- Part six : what's political about reproduction -- Interrogating the concept of reproduction in the eighteenth century / Ludmilla Jordanova -- The body as property : a feminist re-vision / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky -- Reassessing reproduction in social theory / Annette B. Weiner -- Misreading Darwin on reproduction : reductionism in evolutionary theory / Adrienne L. Zihlman. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | This edition in English. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |