Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality
Author: Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800714386

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Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.

Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK

Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK
Author: Pam Lowe
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839093986

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Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over space.

Donors

Donors
Author: Petra Nordqvist
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800435665

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Drawing on interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, the authors discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family life, and consider how reproductive ‘openness’ might be done differently.

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse
Author: Victoria Boydell
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800717350

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This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work in disciplinary silos, reproductive studies is in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.

(In)Fertile Male Bodies

(In)Fertile Male Bodies
Author: Esmée Sinéad Hanna
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800716117

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Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine men’s experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal experiences of the role of lifestyle in the quest for conception as well as the broader promotion of ‘lifestyle’ within both clinical and online material as a key aspect for ‘improving’ male fertility.

Biopolitical Governance

Biopolitical Governance
Author: Hannah Richter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786602725

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For years critical theorists and Foucauldian biopolitical theorists have argued against the Aristotelian idea that life and politics inhabit two separate domains. In the context of receding social security systems and increasing economic inequality, within contemporary liberal democracies, life is necessarily political. This collection brings together contributions from both established scholars and researchers working at the forefront of biopolitical theory, gendered and sexualised governance and the politics of race and migration, to better understand the central lines along which the body of the governed is produced, controlled or excluded.

Mattering

Mattering
Author: Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479878847

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Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or ‘naturalizing’ turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process. This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist theorists, scientists and scholars, apply concepts in contemporary materialist feminism to examine an array of topics in science, biotechnology, biopolitics, and bioethics. These include neuralplasticity and the brain-machine interface; the use of biometrical identification technologies for transnational border control; epigenetics and the intergenerational transmission of the health effects of social stigma; ADHD and neuropharmacology; and randomized controlled trials of HIV drugs.A unique and interdisciplinary collection, Mattering presents in grounded, concrete terms the need for rethinking disciplinary boundaries and research methodologies in light of the shifts in feminist theorizing and transformations in the sciences.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
Author: Georgina Waylen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 887
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199790833

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As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies. Like the field it represents, the handbook has a broad understanding of what counts as political and is based on a notion of gender that highlights masculinities as well as femininities, thereby moving feminist debates in politics beyond the focus on women. It engages with some of the key aspects of political science as well as important themes in gender and feminist research (such as sexuality and body politics), thereby forging a dialogue between gender studies in politics and mainstream political science. The handbook is organized in sections that look at sexuality and body politics; political economy; civil society; participation, representation and policymaking; institutions, states and governance as well as nation, citizenship and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics contains and reflects the best scholarship in its field.

Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness

Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness
Author: Natalie Sappleton
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1787543633

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While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the phenomenon, united within a feminist conceptual framework.

Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice

Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice
Author: Kylie Baldwin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787564851

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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explores the experiences of some of the pioneering users of social egg freezing technology in the UK and the USA.