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Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Inhorn, Marcia C.

Hardcover

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P, Book 11

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845454065
ISBN13: 9781845454067
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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