1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452750703321

Autore

Singer Beverly R

Titolo

Wiping the war paint off the lens : Native American film and video / / Beverly R. Singer ; foreword by Robert Warrior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-8920-2

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 110 pages : illustrations

Collana

Visible evidence ; ; v. 10

Disciplina

791.43/6520397

Soggetti

Indians in motion pictures

Indians in the motion picture industry - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449766803321

Titolo

Infertility around the globe [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-35610-0

0-520-92781-8

1-59734-677-2

9786612356100

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

InhornMarcia Claire <1957->

BalenFrank van

Disciplina

616.6/92

Soggetti

Infertility - Developing countries

Infertility - Social aspects

Infertility - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences -- 2. The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle -- 3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility -- 4. The Psychologization of Infertility -- 5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency -- 6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States -- 7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam -- 8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context -- 9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica -- 10. Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives -- 11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields -- 12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique -- 13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less



Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa -- 14. The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt -- 15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel -- 16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics -- 17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it is the first book to investigate the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Provocative and incisive, it is the most substantial work to date on the subject of infertility. With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors address a far-reaching array of topics: why infertility has been neglected in population studies, how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame squarely on women's shoulders, how infertility and its treatment transform family dynamics and relationships, and the distribution of medical and marital power. The chapters present informed and sophisticated investigations into cultural perceptions of infertility in numerous countries, including China, India, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the nations of Europe. Poised to become the quintessential reference on infertility from an international social science perspective, Infertility around the Globe makes a powerful argument that involuntary childlessness is a complex phenomenon that has far-reaching significance worldwide.