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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

xii, 450 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Birth control--Political aspects.
Birth control--Government policy.
Population policy.
Social policy.
Reproductive technology.

Other Authors:

Ginsburg, Faye D.
Rapp, Rayna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

"Like a mother to them" : stratified reproduction and West Indian childcare workers and employers in New York / John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert -- A surfeit of bodies : population and the rationality of the state in post-Mao China / Ann Anagnost -- Modern bodies, modern minds : midwifery and reproductive change in an African American community / Gertrude J. Fraser -- Irniktakpunga! : sex determination and the Inuit struggle for birthing rights in northern Canada / John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert -- "Like a mother to them" : stratified reproduction and West Indian childcare workers and employers in New York /
Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider. Coitus interruptus and family respectability in Catholic Europe : a Sicilian case study / Ellen Lewin -- Households headed by women : the politics of race, class, and gender / Leith Mullings -- Early childbearing : what is the problem and who owns it? / Martha C. Ward -- Deadly reproduction among Egyptian women : maternal mortality and the medicalization of population control / Soheir A. Morsy -- Coitus interruptus and family respectability in Catholic Europe : a Sicilian case study / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider.
Physical and cultural reproduction in a post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami community / Sharon Stephens. National honor and practical kinship: unwanted women and children / Veena Das -- Political demography: the banning of abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman -- From reproduction to HIV: blurring catagories, shifting positions / Emily Martin -- Physical and cultural reproduction in a post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami community / Sharon Stephens.
Interrogating the concept of reproduction in the eighteenth century / The normalization of prenatal diagnostic screening / Ludmilla Jordanova. Postmodern procreation: a cultural account of assisted reporduction / Sarah Franklin -- Displacing knowledge: technology and the consequences for kinship / Marilyn Strathern -- Interrogating the concept of reproduction in the eighteenth century / Ludmilla Jordanova.
Misreading Darwin on reproduction: reductionism in evolutionary theory / Adrienne L. Zihlman. Reassessing reporduction in social theory / Annette B. Weiner -- Misreading Darwin on reproduction: reductionism in evolutionary theory / Adrienne L. Zihlman.

ISBN:

9780520089143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520089146 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520089136 (alk. paper)
0520089138 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30896173

LCCN:

94029011

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)