Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

by Browner, Carole H.; Sargent, Carolyn F.; Rapp, Rayna; Erikson, Susan L. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822349600
• ISBN10: 0822349604
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-25
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Reproduction, Globalization, and the Stateconceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on the impact of transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies on the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Their fascinating ethnographies, based in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, paternity tests, sex work, and humanitarian assistance. Contributors address the methodological challenges confronting anthropologists conducting research on globalization, including ways of combining fine-grained ethnography with analyses of large-scale political, economic, and ideological forces. Their essays illuminate complex interactions among global and state population policies and politics; public health, human rights, and feminist movements; diverse medical systems; religious practices, doctrines, and institutions; intimate relationships, and individual aspirations.Contributors Aditya Bharadwaj Caroline H. Bledsoe Carole H. Browner Junjie Chen Aimee R. Eden Susan L. Erikson Didier Fassin Claudia Lee Williams Fonseca Ellen Gruenbaum Matthew Gutmann Marcia C. Inhorn Mark B. Padilla Rayna Rapp Lisa Ann Richey Carolyn Sargent Papa Sow Cecilia Van Hollen Linda Whiteford

Author Biography

Carole H. Browner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also Professor of Women's Studies and in the David Geffen School of Medicine. Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches	p. 1
Global Technologies, State Policies, and Local Realities
Introduction to Part I	p. 19
Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method	p. 23
Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China	p. 38
Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico	p. 53
Antiviral but Pronatal? Arvs and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township	p. 68
Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India	p. 83
Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism	p. 96
Biotechnology, Biocommerce, and Body Commodification
Introduction to Part II	p. 111
Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India	p. 113
Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State	p. 126
Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil	p. 138
Consequences of Population Movements for Agency, Structure, and Reproductive Processes
Introduction to Part III	p. 155
From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas	p. 159
Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe	p. 175
Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France	p. 192
Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization	p. 204
Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance	p. 224
Epilogue The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations	p. 239
References	p. 249
Contributors	p. 277
Index	p. 281
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