The Means of Reproduction

The Means of Reproduction
Author: Michelle Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781594202087

The investigative journalist author of Kingdom Coming explores the ways in which restrictions against women's reproductive rights are directly linked to consequences in global development, in a cautionary report that covers such topics as abortion, female circumcision, and human trafficking.

Seizing the Means of Reproduction

Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Author: Claudette Michelle Murphy
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2012-11-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0822353369

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.

The Means of Reproduction

The Means of Reproduction
Author: Michelle Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1101028769

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg's brilliant investigation of the global struggle over women's reproductive rights—"the worldwide battle between the forces of modernity and those of reaction, being fought on the terrain of women's bodies" Through Goldberg's meticulous reporting across four continents, The Means of Reproduction highlights the past and present of feminist activism around the world. In the face of a new wave of authoritarianism, we can look to the stories within this book—from an abortion provider turned health minister of Ghana to survivors of domestic abuse in India to pioneers of access to birth control throughout the Global South—as both blueprint and inspiration. With broad historical scope and lucid prose, Goldberg's analysis demonstrates that women's rights are key to flourishing societies.

The Biology of Reproduction

The Biology of Reproduction
Author: Giuseppe Fusco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108499856

A look into the phenomena of sex and reproduction in all organisms, taking an innovative, unified and comprehensive approach.

How We Do It

How We Do It
Author: Robert Martin
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465030157

A primatologist explores the mystery of the origins of human reproduction, explaining that understanding the evolutionary past can provide insight into what worked, what didn't, and what it all means for the future of mankind.

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
Author: Laura Briggs
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520299949

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

Everything Conceivable

Everything Conceivable
Author: Liza Mundy
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2007-04-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 030726727X

Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. Using in-depth reporting and riveting anecdotal material from doctors, families, surrogates, sperm and egg donors, infertile men and women, single and gay and lesbian parents, and children conceived through technology, Mundy explores the impact of assisted reproduction on individuals as well as the ethical issues raised and the potentially vast social consequences. The unforgettable personal stories in Everything Conceivable run the gamut from joyous to tragic; all of them raise questions we dare not ignore.

Killing the Black Body

Killing the Black Body
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2014-02-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0804152594

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication. "A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. From slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas. “Compelling. . . . Deftly shows how distorted and racist constructions of black motherhood have affected politics, law, and policy in the United States.” —Ms.

Social Reproduction Theory

Social Reproduction Theory
Author: Tithi Bhattacharya
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Capitalism
ISBN: 9780745399881

Crystallizing the essential principles of social reproductive theory, this anthology provides long-overdue analysis of everyday life under capitalism. It focuses on issues such as childcare, healthcare, education, family life, and the roles of gender, race, and sexuality--all of which are central to understanding the relationship between exploitation and social oppression. Tithi Bhattacharya brings together some of the leading writers and theorists, including Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, and Susan Ferguson, in order for us to better understand social relations and how to improve them in the fight against structural oppression.

Reproductive Justice

Reproductive Justice
Author: Loretta Ross
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0520288181

Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Reproductive Justice History -- 2. Reproductive Justice in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Managing Fertility -- 4. Reproductive Justice and the Right to Parent -- Epilogue: Reproductive Justice on the Ground -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index