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Informationen zum Autor 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. She is a co-author of Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine.Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power and a co-editor of several books, including Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge. Klappentext Collection uses ethnographies of globalization to explore the consequences of interactions between global processes and national structures on human reproduction and reproductive health in a range of contexts. Zusammenfassung Anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications! commodities! and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Rayna Rapp ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent 1 Part I. Global Technologies, State Policies, and Local Realities/ Introduction to Part I 19 1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method / Susan L. Erickson 23 2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing the Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China / Junjie Chen 38 3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico / Matthew Gutmann 53 4. Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVS and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township / Lisa Ann Richey 68 5. Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen 83 6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism / Ellen Gruenbaum 96 Part II. Biotechnology, Biocommerce, and Body Commodification/ Introduction to Part II 111 7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India / Aditya Bharadwaj 113 8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State / Marcia C. Inhorn 126 9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca 138 Part III. Consequences of Population Movements for Agency, Structure, and Reproductive Processes/ Introduction to Part III 155 10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas / Mark B. Padilla 159 11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa Sow 175 12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France / Carolyn F. Sargent 192 13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization / Carole H. Browner 204 14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance / Linda M. Whiteford and Aimee R. Eden 224 Epilogue. The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations / Didier Fassin 239 References 249 Contributors 277 Index 281...
