Reproduction and Society

Interdisciplinary Readings
Herausgeber: Joffe, Carole; Reich, Jennifer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives on Gender
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781032225272
• ISBN-10: 1032225270
• Artikelnr.: 71956141

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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