Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Herausgeber: Browner, Carole H

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection uses ethnographies of globalization to explore the consequences of interactions between global processes and national structures on human reproduction and reproductive health in a range of contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349600
• ISBN-10: 0822349604
• Artikelnr.: 32469801

Autorenporträt

Carole H. Browner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also Professor of Women’s Studies and in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a co-author of Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine. Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power and a co-editor of several books, including Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Rayna Rapp ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction:
Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn
F. Sargent 1
Part I. Global Technologies, State Policies, and Local Realities/
Introduction to Part I 19
1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method / Susan L. Erickson 23
2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing the Rural Subjects: Population
Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China / Junjie Chen
38
3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico / Matthew
Gutmann 53
4. Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVS and Reproductive Health: The View from a
South African Township / Lisa Ann Richey 68
5. Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and
Technologies in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen 83
6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive
Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism,
and Islamism / Ellen Gruenbaum 96
Part II. Biotechnology, Biocommerce, and Body Commodification/ Introduction
to Part II 111
7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in
India / Aditya Bharadwaj 113
8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies,
and the Middle Eastern State / Marcia C. Inhorn 126
9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA
Paternity Tests in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca 138
Part III. Consequences of Population Movements for Agency, Structure, and
Reproductive Processes/ Introduction to Part III 155
10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male
Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas / Mark B. Padilla 159
11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational
Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa
Sow 175
12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of
Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant
Women in France / Carolyn F. Sargent 192
13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of
State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization / Carole H.
Browner 204
14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian
Assistance / Linda M. Whiteford and Aimee R. Eden 224
Epilogue. The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between
National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations / Didier Fassin 239
References 249
Contributors 277
Index 281