| Description |
xii, 450 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Anthropology online |
| Contents |
Introduction : conceiving the new world order / Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- 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 -- "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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 |
| Analysis |
Humans Reproduction Sociology |
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Humans Reproduction Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
This edition in English |
| SUBJECT |
Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute). Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009184526
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| Subject |
Birth control -- Government policy.
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Birth control -- Political aspects.
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Population policy.
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Reproductive technology.
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Social policy.
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Family Planning Services.
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Politics.
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Population Control.
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Public Policy.
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Reproductive Medicine.
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| Author |
Ginsburg, Faye D.
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Reiter, Rayna R.
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| LC no. |
94029011 |
| ISBN |
0520089138 (alk. paper) |
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0520089146 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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