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Record Nr.

UNISA996248305703316

Autore

Inhorn (ed.) Marcia

Titolo

Reproductive disruptions [[electronic resource] ] : gender, technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-84545-406-5

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 239 p. ; ; 24 cm

Collana

Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

InhornMarcia Claire <1957->

Disciplina

612.6

Soggetti

Human reproduction - Social aspects

Human reproduction - Political aspects

Reproductive health - Social aspects

Human reproductive technology - Social aspects

Gender identity

Feminism - Health aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published: 2007.

This volume has its origins in a conference held at the University of Michigan, 19-22 May 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Defining women's health: a dozen messages from more than 150 ethnographies / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The dialectics of disruption: paradoxes of nature and professionalism in contemporary American childbearing / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel F. Scherrer -- Designing a woman-centered health care approach to pregnancy loss: lessons from feminist models of childbirth / Linda Layne -- Enlarging reproduction, screening disability / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Openness in adoption: re-thinking "family" in the US / Harold D. Grotevant -- Can gender "equity" in prenatal genetic services unintentionally reinforce male authority? / C.H. Browner -- When the personal is political: contested reproductive strategies among West African migrants in France / Carolyn Sargent -- Reproductive disruptions and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim world / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The final disruption? biopolitics of post-reproductive life / Margaret Lock.