Format:
x, 257 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780814255582
Series Statement:
Formations: adoption, kinship, and culture
Content:
"A collection of essays examining the connections between abortion, adoption, and commercial surrogacy in the global context of reproductive politics in the neoliberal age, interrogating how contemporary understandings of the construction of family expand choices for some women while limiting choices for others"--
Content:
"The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism uniquely brings together three sites of reproduction and reproductive politics to demonstrate their entanglement in creating or restricting options for family-making. The original essays in this collection--which draw from a wide range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives--are attentive to neoliberalism's reshaping of economies and intimacies to better understand the politics of reproduction. By looking at particular instances (surrogacy in Mexico, forced sterilization in Peru, and racialized biopolitics in post-Katrina Mississippi, among other sites), The Politics of Reproduction focuses on the effects of a radically altered economic landscape on individual choice-making. As a whole, the volume critically engages the question of choice to better understand the costs of a political and ideological climate that encourages, even demands, individual solutions to intractable social problems. Whose choices are amplified in the use of new biomedical technologies and assisted reproduction? Why and how are we discouraged from understanding the economic motivations behind the "choice" to surrender a baby for adoption or to become a surrogate or to seek an abortion? Attentive to the historical, cultural, and ideological conjunctures of reproductive politics, The Politics of Reproduction makes a distinctive contribution to feminist analyses of the specific challenges posed by neoliberalism to reproductive possibilities, politics, and justice in the contemporary moment." --
Note:
Introduction
,
Precarity and disaster in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones: a reproductive justice reading
,
Privileging God the Father: the neoliberal theology of the evangelical orphan care movement
,
White futures: reproduction and labor in neoliberal times
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One woman's choice is another woman's disobedience: Seguro popular and threats to midwifery in Mexico
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The work/life equation: notes toward de-privatizing the maternal
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The angel in the McMansion: female citizenship and fetal personhood in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Juno
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"Masters of their own destiny": women's rights and forced sterilizations in Peru
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It's all biopolitics: a feminist response to the disability rights critique of prenatal testing
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Commodification anxiety and the making of American families in a state-contracted adoption and foster care program
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"It's your choice, but . . .": paradoxes of neoliberal reproduction for indigenous women in Oaxaca, Mexico
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The globalization of assisted reproduction: vulnerability and regulation
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Dangerous desires and abjected lives: baby-hunger, coerced surrogacy, and family-making in Michael Robotham's The Night Ferry
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
Language:
English
Keywords:
Soziologie
;
Adoption
;
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
;
Ersatzmutterschaft
;
Reproduktive Rechte
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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