Feminism in/as biopolitics -- Assembling protocol feminism -- Immodest witnessing, affective economies and objectivity -- Pap smears, cervical cancer, and scales -- Traveling technology and a device for not performing abortions -- Living the contradiction
Summary
In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means -- the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes -- developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index
