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Informationen zum Autor Camisha A. Russell Klappentext The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)--in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy--challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: From What Race Is to What Race Does Overview Assisted Reproductive Technologies Critical Philosophy of Race The Debate over the "Reality" of Race Nature, Culture, or Politics? Description of Chapters 1. Reproductive Technologies are Not "Post-Racial" Beyond the "Bioethical" Approach Whose Progress? The "Problem" of Infertility Reproducing Inequalities Race and the "Natural" Conclusion 2. Race Isn't Just Made, It's Used Race as Technology Heidegger's Essence of Technology Foucault's Focus on Technologies Conclusion 3. A Technological History of Race Backdoor to Eugenics? The Technological Science of Race Kant's Scientific Concept of Race Race as Envisioned and Purposive Race as Producible and Produced Race, Heredity, and Eugenics Proper A Note on Heidegger Conclusion 4. "I Just Want Children Like Me" Putting Race to Work Race, Blood, and American Kinship Denying Common Origins-The American Polygenists Discouraging Intimacy and Disallowing Kinship Separation After Slavery The "Blood" in our "Genes" Conclusion 5. Race and Choice in the Era of Liberal Eugenics The Neo-Liberal Regime of Truth Technologies of the Self The Personal and the Political in Assisted Reproduction Technologies of the Self as Technologies of Race Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
