Reproductive Disruptions : : Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium / / ed. by Marcia C. Inhorn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bledsoe, Caroline H.,; Browner, C. H.,; Ginsburg, Faye,; Grotevant, Harold D.,; Inhorn, Marcia C.,; Layne, Linda,; Lock, Margaret,; Rapp, Rayna,; Sargent, Carolyn,; Scherrer, Rachel F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Inhorn, Marcia C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies -- Appendix -- Part I. Reproduction and Disruption: Redefining the Contours of Normalcy -- 1. The Dialectics of Disruption: Paradoxes of Nature and Professionalism in Contemporary American Childbearing -- 2. Designing a Woman-Centered Health Care Approach to Pregnancy Loss: Lessons from Feminist Models of Childbirth -- 3. Enlarging Reproduction, Screening Disability -- 4. Openness in Adoption: Re-Thinking “Family” in the U -- Part II. Reproduction, Gender, and Biopolitics: Local-Global Intersections and Contestations -- 5. Can Gender “Equity” in Prenatal Genetic Services Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority? -- 6. When the Personal is Political: Contested Reproductive Strategies among West African Migrants in France -- 7. Reproductive Disruptions and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim World -- 8. The Final Disruption? Biopolitics of Post-Reproductive Life -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Index