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1 online resource (243 pages) |
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place Ser |
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A call for reproductive geographies; Reproductive health and social justice; Technological reproduction and feminist politics; Geographical approaches to reproduction; Reproductive geographies: Bodies, place, politics; Structure of the book; References; PART I: Bodies; 1. Making an "embryological vision of the world": Law, maternity and the Kyoto Collection; Creating the Kyoto Collection; Eugenic theories in Japan |
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Making biological value: The Kyoto Collection todayNotes; References; 2. Biological reproduction, respatialised: Conceiving abnormality in a biotech age; Introduction; From in vivo to in vitro: The respatialisation of reproduction; Mapping embryonic abnormality; Negotiating abnormality in the fertility clinic; From fertility clinic to research lab; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Right donor, right place: Spatialities of artificial insemination; Introduction; Geographies of the body; Eugenics, elitism, and exclusion; Mobility; Sperm donation; Process; The cryobank; Methods |
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Bodies and artificial inseminationChoosing a donor; Intimacy and sites of insemination; Specimen mobilities; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. Behind closed doors: The hidden needs of perimenopausal women in Ghana; Introduction; The Perimenopause; Understandings of the menopause: The Ghanaian perspective; Women and water; Hidden knowledge; Academic perspective: A lack of literature; Methodology and case study; Hidden needs of perimenopausal women: What goes on behind closed doors?; Access to infrastructure; Hidden reproductive geographies: Learning from the WASH needs of perimenopausal women |
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Surrogacy as hard labourSurveilling the reproductive body in the surrogacy industry in India; Stigma and status: The position of the reproductive labourer in Indian society; Conclusion; Note; Acknowledgements; References; 7. The best of both worlds? Mothers' narratives around birth centre experiences in the Twin Cities, Minnesota; Introduction; Safety, risk and spaces of birth; Methods; The appeal of out-of-hospital birth; Attractions of the birth centre; Birth centre as separation; Navigating risk; Discussion: Birth centres as compromise or the best of both worlds?; Conclusion; References |
| Summary |
Note; Acknowledgements; References; PART II: Places; 5. "Here we are!" Exploring academic spaces of pregnant graduate students; Introduction; Feminist geography and maternal bodies; Methodology; Participants; Lack of maternal bodies and maternal representations; The pregnant body: On display and out of place; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 6. "It is a jail which does not let us be ... ": Negotiating spaces of commercial surrogacy by reproductive labourers in India; Introduction; Commercial surrogacy in India; Methodology; Challenging the public/private dichotomy |
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8. "My germs, my space, my stuff, my smells": Homebirth as a site of spatialised resistance in Appalachian Ohio |
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Print version record |
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects
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Human reproduction -- Political aspects
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Human reproductive technology.
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Biopolitics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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feminist geographies.
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gender and geography.
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geographies of health.
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geography of health.
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health geographies.
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helen hazen.
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marcia england.
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maria fanin.
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reproductive geographies.
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reproductive geography.
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women in place.
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Biopolitics
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Human reproduction -- Political aspects
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects
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Human reproductive technology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fannin, Maria
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Hazen, Helen
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| ISBN |
9780429772061 |
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0429772068 |
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9780429772054 |
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042977205X |
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9780429772047 |
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0429772041 |
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9780429430138 |
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0429430132 |
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