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Reproductive Disruptions - Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium (Paperback)
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Reproductive Disruptions - Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium (Paperback)
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
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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. Marcia
C. Inhorn is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of
Michigan, where she directs the Center for Middle Eastern and North
African Studies. A specialist on infertility and assisted
reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the
author or editor of four books on the subject. Her publications
include Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian
Medical Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, winner
of Eileen Basker Prize for outstanding research in gender and
health), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of
Gender and Family Life in Egypt (University of Pennsylvania Press,
1996) and Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In
Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge Press, 2003)."
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