TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bledsoe,Caroline H.
AU  - Browner,C.H.
AU  - Ginsburg,Faye
AU  - Grotevant,Harold D.
AU  - Inhorn,Marcia C.
AU  - Layne,Linda
AU  - Lock,Margaret
AU  - Rapp,Rayna
AU  - Sargent,Carolyn
AU  - Scherrer,Rachel F.
TI  - Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium 
T2  - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
SN  - 9781845454067
AV  - QP251 .R444473 2007 
U1  - 612.6 
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Childfree choice
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Human reproduction
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human reproductive technology
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Reproductive health
KW  - Reproductive technology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies --; Appendix --; Part I. Reproduction and Disruption: Redefining the Contours of Normalcy --; 1. The Dialectics of Disruption: Paradoxes of Nature and Professionalism in Contemporary American Childbearing --; 2. Designing a Woman-Centered Health Care Approach to Pregnancy Loss: Lessons from Feminist Models of Childbirth --; 3. Enlarging Reproduction, Screening Disability --; 4. Openness in Adoption: Re-Thinking “Family” in the U --; Part II. Reproduction, Gender, and Biopolitics: Local-Global Intersections and Contestations --; 5. Can Gender “Equity” in Prenatal Genetic Services Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority? --; 6. When the Personal is Political: Contested Reproductive Strategies among West African Migrants in France --; 7. Reproductive Disruptions and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim World --; 8. The Final Disruption? Biopolitics of Post-Reproductive Life --; List of Abbreviations --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people’s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption; the contested meanings of abortion; cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy; and the globalization of new pharmaceutical and assisted reproductive technologies. This breadth - with its explicit move from the “local” to the “global,” from the realm of everyday reproductive practice to international programs and policies - illuminates most effectively the workings of power, the tensions between women’s and men’s reproductive agency, and various cultural and structural inequalities in reproductive health
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455635
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857455635
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857455635/original
ER  -