Author: Jacqueline Stevens
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: state, reproducing
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1999-07-12
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 069101714X
ISBN-13: 9780691017143

People are said to acquire their affiliations of ethnicity, race, and sex at birth. Hence, these affiliations have long been understood to be natural, independent of the ability of political societies to define who we are. Reproducing the State vigorously challenges the conventional view, as well as post-structuralist scholarship that minimizes state power. Jacqueline Stevens examines birth-based theories of membership and group affiliations in political societies ranging from the Athenian polis, to tribes of Australia, to the French republic, to the contemporary United States. The book detail

Authors:Susan Gal, Gail Kligman,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: gender, reproducing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-05-08
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0691048681
ISBN-13: 9780691048680

The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations. The fourteen studies in this volume result from a comparative, collaborative research project on the complex relationship between ideas and practices of gender, and political economic change. The book presents detailed evidence about women’s and men’s new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of poli

Author: Laura Martha Purdy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: bioethics, feminist, issues, persons, reproducing
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 1996-07
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0801483220
ISBN-13: 9780801483226

Author: Laura Brigg
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: imperialism, puerto, rico, science, sex, empire, race, reproducing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520232585
ISBN-13: 9780520232587

Original and compelling, Laura Briggs’s Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it sheds light on the legacies h

Author: Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: new, reproductive, technologies, kinship, anthropology, future, essays, reproducing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1992-06-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0719036747
ISBN-13: 9780719036743

Author: Shelley Mallett
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: papua, new, guinea, nuakata, places, cultures, reproducing, people, conceiving
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-02-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472068288
ISBN-13: 9780472068289

Conceiving Cultures reflects on the ways anthropologists come to understand and represent the people and cultures that they study. These ideas are developed through an ethnographic study that explores notions of the gendered person through knowledge of and practices relating to reproductive health on the Massim island of Nuakata in Papua New Guinea. In a distinct and engaging style, Shelley Mallett describes the ways that Massim women manage their reproductive health and notes the tensions that arise as they negotiate a path between conflicting local traditions and state-sponsored, Western-sty

Authors:Sarah Franklin, Helena Ragone,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: technological, innovation, power, kinship, reproduction, reproducing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0812215842
ISBN-13: 9780812215847

The biological givens of human reproduction have formed the basis of much social theory. In chapters on abortion, assisted conception, biodiversity conservation, artificial life sciences, adoption, intellectual property, and prenatal screening, REPRODUCING REPRODUCTION contends that ideologies of class, nation, health, gender, nature, and kinship have reproductive models at their core .