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This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the aftereffects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Norway and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China. The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planning.
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"Conceiving the New World Order promises to explore the consequences of making reproduction central to social theory in general, and it delivers on its promise abundantly. The feminist vision here is large, theoretically incisive, detailed, empirically deep, and politically inspiring. I will use these essays in teaching and research, but most of all in striving to inhabit the New World Order as a post-natal, born-again feminist."--Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
"A stunning collection that shifts the anthropology of reproduction onto the terrain of power, where it belongs. Conceiving the New World Order not only redefines reproduction by linking the body to the body politic but also shows the value of careful historical, social, and cultural analysis of the connection between the local and the global. It has much to teach anyone who wants to know how pregnancy, parenting, birth control, population policies, demography, and the new reproductive technologies shape and are shaped by women and the world."--Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
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This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the aftereffects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Norway and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China. The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planning.
From the Inside Flap
"Conceiving the New World Order promises to explore the consequences of making reproduction central to social theory in general, and it delivers on its promise abundantly. The feminist vision here is large, theoretically incisive, detailed, empirically deep, and politically inspiring. I will use these essays in teaching and research, but most of all in striving to inhabit the New World Order as a post-natal, born-again feminist."--Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
"A stunning collection that shifts the anthropology of reproduction onto the terrain of power, where it belongs. Conceiving the New World Order not only redefines reproduction by linking the body to the body politic but also shows the value of careful historical, social, and cultural analysis of the connection between the local and the global. It has much to teach anyone who wants to know how pregnancy, parenting, birth control, population policies, demography, and the new reproductive technologies shape and are shaped by women and the world."--Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
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This book has two agendas: to transform traditional anthropological analyses of reproduction and to clarify the importance of making re production central to social society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
obstetrical policy, renkou bao, euphemized violence, stratified reproduction, deadly reproduction, technological enablement, terminal abstinence, midwifery tradition, sibling intimacy, practical kinship, abducted persons, abducted women, birth policy, reproductive politics, prenatal diagnostic testing, contraceptive research, pronatalist policies, lesbian motherhood, reindeer herding, kinship norms, reproductive labor, childcare workers, lesbian mothers, reindeer meat, new reproductive technologies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book has two agendas: to transform traditional anthropological analyses of reproduction and to clarify the importance of making re production central to social society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
obstetrical policy, renkou bao, euphemized violence, stratified reproduction, deadly reproduction, technological enablement, terminal abstinence, midwifery tradition, sibling intimacy, practical kinship, abducted persons, abducted women, birth policy, reproductive politics, prenatal diagnostic testing, contraceptive research, pronatalist policies, lesbian motherhood, reindeer herding, kinship norms, reproductive labor, childcare workers, lesbian mothers, reindeer meat, new reproductive technologies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Indian, African American, South Sami, United States, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Central Harlem, Ministry of Health, Sarah Franklin, Harvard University Press, Beacon Press, Oxford University Press, Rayna Rapp, Green River, Shellee Colen, Constituent Assembly, University of Chicago Press, American Anthropological Association, Family Planning Perspectives, Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press, Bureau of the Census, Cornell University Press, Basil Blackwell New!
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- Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception by J. Edwards on 5 pages
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Revised 10th Anniv 2nd Edition) by Patricia Hill Collins on page 136, page 397, and page 404
- After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) by Marilyn Strathern on page 344, page 363, and Back Matter
- OFF-CENTRE: FEMINISM & CULTURAL PB (Cultural Studies Birmingham) by Sarah Franklin on page 341, page 344, and Back Matter
- American Kinship: A Cultural Account by David M. Schneider on page 344, and page 363
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- The Political Geographies of Pregnancy by Laura R. Woliver on 12 pages
- Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America. by Pamela E. Klassen on 10 pages
- Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective by Vincanne Adams on 8 pages
- Pragmatic Women and Body Politics (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) by Margaret Lock on 5 pages
- Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots by R. Davis-Floyd on 5 pages
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