Reproductive Geographies: Bodies, Places and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780815386193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 230 str.

Marcia R. England; Maria Fannin; Helen Hazen

Opis

The book provides a geographical lens on questions of reproduction, fertility and birth in a world where procreation increasingly turns into a global endeavour. It explores the role that mobility, place and embodiment play in women and men’s experiences of fertility and birth, and evidences dynamics of cultural difference, intergenerational networks, performances of care and social inequity.

Spis treści

Introduction: A call for reproductive geographies Part I: Bodies 1 Making an “embryological vision of the world”: Law, maternity and the Kyoto Collection 2. Biological reproduction, respatialised: Conceiving abnormality in a biotech age 3. Right donor, right place: Spatialities of artificial insemination 4. Behind closed doors: The hidden needs of perimenopausal women in Ghana Part II: Places 5. “Here we are!” Exploring academic spaces of pregnant graduate students 6. “It is a jail which does not let us be…”: Negotiating spaces of commercial surrogacy by reproductive labourers in India 7. The best of both worlds? Mothers’ narratives around birth centre experiences in the Twin Cities, Minnesota 8. “My germs, my space, my stuff, my smells”: Homebirth as a site of spatialised resistance in Appalachian Ohio Part III: Politics 9. Birth and biopolitics: Maternity migration, birthright citizenship and domopolitics in Hong Kong 10. National pasts and biopolitical futures in Serbia 11. Reproducing inequalities: Examining the intersection of environment and global maternal and child health. Conclusion: Reproductive bodies, places and politics: future directions