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Title

Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp.

Publication

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Ginsburg, Faye D.
• Reiter, Rayna R.

Description

xii, 450 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Population policy
• Birth control > Political aspects
• Birth control > Government policy
• Social policy
• Reproductive technology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order / Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- 2. A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of the State in Post-Mao China / Ann Anagnost -- 3. Modern Bodies, Modern Minds: Midwifery and Reproductive Change in an African American Community / Gertrude J. Fraser -- 4. Irniktakpunga!: Sex Determination and the Inuit Struggle for Birthing Rights in Northern Canada / John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert -- 5. "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York / Shellee Colen -- 6. On the Outside Looking In: The Politics of Lesbian Motherhood / Ellen Lewin -- 7. Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender / Leith Mullings -- 8. Early Childbearing: What Is the Problem and Who Owns It? / Martha C. Ward -- 9. Deadly Reproduction among Egyptian Women: Maternal Mortality and the Medicalization of Population Control / Soheir A. Morsy.
• 10. Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic Europe: A Sicilian Case Study / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- 11. Women's Reproductive Practices and Biomedicine: Cultural Conflicts and Transformations in Nigeria / Tola Olu Pearce -- 12. National Honor and Practical Kinship: Unwanted Women and Children / Veena Das -- 13. Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman -- 14. From Reproduction to HIV: Blurring Categories, Shifting Positions / Emily Martin -- 15. Physical and Cultural Reproduction in a Post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami Community / Sharon Stephens -- 16. Public Servants, Professionals, and Feminists: The Politics of Contraceptive Research in Brazil / Carmen Barroso and Sonia Correa -- 17. The Normalization of Prenatal Diagnostic Screening / Carole H. Browner and Nancy Ann Press -- 18. Postmodern Procreation: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction / Sarah Franklin.
• 19. Displacing Knowledge: Technology and the Consequences for Kinship / Marilyn Strathern -- 20. Interrogating the Concept of Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century / Ludmilla Jordanova -- 21. The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-vision / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky -- 22. Reassessing Reproduction in Social Theory / Annette B. Weiner -- 23. Misreading Darwin on Reproduction: Reductionism in Evolutionary Theory / Adrienne L. Zihlman.

ISBN

• 0520089138 (alk. paper)
• 0520089146 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94029011

OCLC

• 30896173
• ocm30896173

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries