Maya Unnithan

Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics

Re-imagining Rights in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, the book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781138610965
• ISBN-10: 1138610968
• Artikelnr.: 56351279

Autorenporträt

Maya Unnithan is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH) in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Fertile subjects: Global reproductive politics at the
intersections of caste, class and gender, Chapter 2. State empowerment and
reproductive control, Chapter 3. Infertility and other reproductive
anxieties: An ontological challenge to 'reproductive health' and 'rights',
Chapter 4. Sex selective abortion and reproductive morality: Technology and
the discourse on rights, Chapter 5. Maternal risk and its mediation:
Learning from health-worker vulnerabilities, Chapter 6. Altruism and the
politics of legislating reproductive labour: Why surrogacy matters, Chapter
7. Making Rights Real: Legal activism and social responsibility, Chapter 8.
Re-imagining rights: Reproductive politics and the quest for justice

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Chapter 1. Fertile subjects: Global reproductive politics at the intersections of caste, class and gender, Chapter 2. State empowerment and reproductive control, Chapter 3. Infertility and other reproductive anxieties: An ontological challenge to 'reproductive health' and 'rights', Chapter 4. Sex selective abortion and reproductive morality: Technology and the discourse on rights, Chapter 5. Maternal risk and its mediation: Learning from health-worker vulnerabilities, Chapter 6. Altruism and the politics of legislating reproductive labour: Why surrogacy matters, Chapter 7. Making Rights Real: Legal activism and social responsibility, Chapter 8. Re-imagining rights: Reproductive politics and the quest for justice

Rezensionen

"The scholarship that the manuscript imbibes is outstanding. It engages with critical debates in the field of citizenship, rights, social justice, equality, modernity and the state from a bottom-up approach... Drawing on ethnographic material from North India...it offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights." - Jeevan R. Sharma, University of Edinburgh, UK

"This rich and nuanced book draws upon a long ethnographic engagement in North India to skilfully situate finely observed accounts of women's reproductive experiences within a wider field of development and state agencies, power and politics. It constitutes a powerful and unique empirical and theoretical contribution - of relevance to medical anthropology but speaking also to vital debates in public health and development practice about framings, evidence and social justice." - Hayley MacGregor, Institute for Development Studies, UK