The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction

ISBN-13: 9781032106663 / Miękka / 2023 / 652 str.

Opis

This book is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction.

Recenzje

"This book expertly guides us through the intricacies of reproduction as a complex entanglement of biocultural, biographical and historically situated practices, in which relationships of unequal power and violence, as well as care and kinship are forged. The editors have showcased the astonishing breadth of topics that are centred on reproduction, from socio-cultural, evolutionary, linguistic, political, medical, technological and intersectional perspectives. The book will appeal to students and scholars at all levels with an interest in reproduction and I highly recommend it – even established experts will encounter new knowledge and will be inspired to broaden their thinking about reproduction beyond the confines of their own disciplinary imperatives and experiences. The book also has much to offer those who work to set policy and practices which relate, directly and indirectly, to reproduction. If clinicians, legislators, as well as those who determine public health policy, were to engage with the evidence and arguments so cogently presented in this book then perhaps the subject of reproduction could take its rightful place at the core of our everyday values, practices, and human rights." - Rebecca Gowland in Childhood in the Past

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I Opening conversations in reproduction  1. Conceiving Reproduction in Biological Anthropology  2. Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Evidence, Proposed Mechanisms, and Ideas for Future Applications  3. Men and Reproduction: Perspectives from Biological Anthropology  4. Conceiving of Reproduction in Archaeology  Part II Governance, stratification, justice, and freedom  5. Reproduction and the State  6. The Necropolitics of Reproduction: Racism, Resistance, and the Sojourner Syndrome in the Age of the Movement for Black Lives  7. Reproductive Governance in Practice: A Comparison of State-Provided Reproductive Health Care in Cuba and the United States  8. Reproduction through Revolution: Maoist Women’s Struggle for Equity in Post-Development Nepal  9. Policy, Governance, Practice: Global Perspectives on Abortion  10. Sterile Choices: Racialized Women, Reproductive Freedom, and Social Justice  Part III Making fertility  11. Menstruation: Causes, Consequences, and Context  12. Menstruation: Sociocultural Perspectives  13. Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, and Fertility Preservation: Global Perspectives  14. Global IVF and Local Practices: The Case of Ghana  15. Eggs  16. Surrogacy  Part IV Queering reproduction  17. The Racial Contours of Queer Reproduction  18. Invisible Hands: The Reproductivities of Queer(ing) and Race(ing) Gynecology  Part V Made and unmade: Personhood and reproduction  19. "Personhood" in the Anthropology of Reproduction  20. Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis  21. Navigating Reproductive Losses  22. Reproduction in the Past: A Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Fetus and Its Significance  Part VI Pregnancy  23. Pregnancy and the Anthropology of Reproduction  24. Bringing Language into the Anthropology of Reproduction: The Text and Talk of Pregnancy  25. From Couvade to "Men’s Involvement": Sociocultural Perspectives of Expectant Fatherhood  Part VII Birth  26. The Obstetrical Dilemma Revisited--Revisited  27. There Is No Evolutionary "Obstetrical Dilemma"  28. Midwifery in Cross-Cultural Perspectives  29. Doulas: Negotiating Boundaries in Birth  30. Rituals and Rites of Childbirth across Cultures  31. Making Dignified Care the Norm: Examining Obstetric Violence and Reproductive Justice in Kenya  32. Maternal Mortality  Part VIII Postpartum and infant care  33. Making Space for Lactation in the Anthropology of Reproduction  34. The Bioarchaeology of Infant Feeding  35. Biocultural Perspectives on Infant Sleep  Part IX Care as reproducing kinship  36. Menopause  37. The Shifting Role of Grandmothers in Global Reproduction Strategies  38. Alloparenting: Evolutionary Origins and Contemporary Significance of Cooperative Childrearing as a Key Feature of Human Reproduction  39. Adoption and Fostering  Glossary

O autorze

Sallie Han is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta, USA. She is the author of Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US (2013) and co-editor of The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society (2018).

Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor and Director of Global Public Health and Community Health at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, USA. She is the author of Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma (2014) and co-editor of Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches (2018).