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The new edition of
Reproduction and Society assembles an authoritative collection of the best scholarship on reproductive matters to help students and readers think critically and more expansively about acts of reproduction as social phenomena.
List of contents
Introduction: Reproduction and the Public Interest in Private Parts Section I. Controlling Reproduction 1. Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism 2. Expanding Opportunities for Women and Economic Uncertainty Are Both Factors in Declining US Fertility Rates 3. Forced Sterilization in the US Targeted Minorities and Those with Disabilities - and Lasted Into the 21st Century 4. Reproductive Justice for Disabled Women: Ending Systemic Discrimination 5. Letter to Maria Van Vorst on "Race Suicide" (1902) 6. Motherhood as Class Privilege in America 7. Reproducing Eugenics, Reproducing While Trans: The State of Sterilization of Trans People Section II. Contraception and Sterilization 8. The Folklore of Birth Control 9. The Pill - Genocide or Liberation? 10. The Feritily of Women of Mexican Origin: A Social Constructionist Approach 11. Dissatisfied with Birth Control? You're Not Alone 12. Male Birth Control Options Are in Development, but a Number of Barriers Still Stand in the Way 13. Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion 14. What is Voluntary Sterilization? A Health Communication Expert Unpacks How Legacy of Forced Sterilization Shapes Doctor-Patient Conversations Today 15. Bishops and Bodies: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis 16. Without Birth Control Help, Marine’s Readiness Suffers Section III. Abortion 17. U.S. Medicine and the Marginalization of Abortion 18. How A Supreme Court Decision Limiting Access to Abortion Could Harm the Economy and Women’s Well-Being 19. Selections from Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice 20. When Abortion at a Clinic Is Not Available, 1 in 3 Pregnant People Say They Will Do Something on Their Own to End the Pregnancy 21. The end of Roe v. Wade and the new landscape of abortion access in the United States 22. Less Than 1% of Abortions Take Place in the Third Trimester – Here’s Why People Get Them 23. Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe 24. What You Need to Know about Surveillance and Reproductive Rights in a Post Roe V Wade World Section IV. Fetal Rights and Constructions of Maternal-Fetal Conflicts 25. Reproduction in Bondage 26. The Policy and Politics of Reproductive Health Motherhood Preconceived: The Emergence of the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative 27. Coercive and Punitive Governmental Responses to Women's Conduct During Pregnancy 28. Selections from Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars 29. Changing Roles of Doctors and Nurses: Hospital Snitches and Police Informants 30. “Black Children Are an Endangered Species”: Examining Racial Framing in Social Movements Section V. Pregnancy and Birth 31. The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control 32. “I'm Just a Woman Having a Baby”: Negotiating and Resisting the Problematization of Pregnancy Fatness 33. Maternal Mortality in the United States: A Primer 34. Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, and Birthing 35. Stratified Reproduction and Prenatal Genetics in a Post-Roe United States 36. Transgender Men and Nonbinary People Are Asked to Stop Testosterone Therapy During Pregnancy – But the Evidence for This Guidance Is Still Murky 37. What Causes Miscarriages? A Doctor Explains Why Women Shouldn’t Blame Themselves 38. Pregnant on the Other Side of the Border 39. The Liability Threat in Obstetrics Section VI. Reproductive Technology 40. Infertility and IVF Access in the United States: A Human Rights-Based Policy Approach 41. Selling Genes, Selling Gender 42. Male Fertility Is Declining – Studies Show That Environmental Toxins Could Be a Reason 43. Making the Ethnic Embryo: Enacting Race in US Embryo Adoption 44. The ‘Chore’ of Having Sex to Try to Get Pregnant 45. The Belly Mommy and the Fetus Sitter: The Reproductive Marketplace and Family Intimacies 46. India’s Reproductive Assembly Line 47. Do Embryos have Kinship? Negotiating Meanings of Relatedness in the Fertility Clinic 48. Who’s Your Daddy? Don’t Ask a DNA Test
About the author
Carole Joffe is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Professor Emerita of Sociology at U.C. Davis. She is the coauthor, with David S. Cohen, of the forthcoming book,
After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but not Abortion. She is the author of several other books and over 100 articles and op-eds on abortion and other topics in reproductive health. She has won lifetime achievement awards from the Society of Family Planning, the National Abortion Federation, and the Abortion Care Network.
Jennifer Reich is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research examines how individuals and families weigh information and strategize their interactions with the state and service providers in the context of public policy, particularly as they relate to health care and welfare. She is the author of two award-winning books,
Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System and
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, and is editor of the book,
State of Families as well as the NYU book series,
Health, Society, and Inequality. She has written more than 50 articles and book chapters that explore vaccination, reproductive health, welfare, multiracial families, public assistance, and recovery after disaster.
Summary
The new edition of Reproduction and Society assembles an authoritative collection of the best scholarship on reproductive matters to help students and readers think critically and more expansively about acts of reproduction as social phenomena.
