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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464898903321

Autore

Nadkarni Asha

Titolo

Eugenic Feminism [[electronic resource] ] : Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4141-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

305.420954

Soggetti

Feminism - India

Feminism - United States

Eugenics - India

Eugenics - United States

Birth control - India

Birth control - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development; 1 Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias; 2 Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu's Eugenic Feminist Renaissance; 3 "World Menace": National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate; 4 The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950's; 5 Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Problem of Subalternity; EPILOGUE: Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother India; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women's biological ability to "reproduce the nation" they are participating in a eugenic project-sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United States and India, Nadkarni shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics is embedded within the terms of nationalist feminism.  Nadkarni reveals connections between U.S. and Indian nationalist feminisms from the late nineteenth century through



the 1970's, demonstrating that both call for

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566465803321

Autore

Jara Carlos A

Titolo

Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Soggetti

Humanities

Social interaction

History

Social and ethical issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

People with congenital and/or acquired disabilities constitute a great number of dependents today. Robotic platforms to help people with disabilities are being developed with the aim of providing both rehabilitation treatment and assistance to improve their quality of life. A high demand for robotic platforms that provide assistance during rehabilitation is expected because of the health status of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in countries facing major challenges to ensure the health and autonomy of their disabled population. Robotic platforms are necessary to ensure assistance and rehabilitation for disabled people in the current global situation. The capacity of robotic platforms in this area must be continuously improved to benefit the healthcare sector in terms of chronic disease prevention, assistance, and autonomy. For this reason, research about human-robot interaction in these robotic assistance environments must grow and advance because this topic demands sensitive and intelligent robotic platforms that are equipped with complex sensory systems, high handling functionalities, safe control



strategies, and intelligent computer vision algorithms. This Special Issue has published eight papers covering recent advances in the field of robotic platforms to assist disabled people in daily or clinical environments. The papers address innovative solutions in this field, including affordable assistive robotics devices, new techniques in computer vision for intelligent and safe human-robot interaction, and advances in mobile manipulators for assistive tasks.