Birth Controlled - Selective Reproduction Neoliberal Eugenics in South Africa India

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction - interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition - by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies.

About the author

Amrita Pande is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town

Summary

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction – interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition – by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Amrita Pande
• Assisted by: Nicky Falkof (Editor), Amrita Pande (Editor), Srila Roy (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781526160546
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6054-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Governing Intimacies in the Gl; Governing Intimacies in the Global South
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories