Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context (Feminist Technosciences) - Softcover

Bhatia, Rajani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295999217 ISBN 13: 9780295999210

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2018

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Bhatia, a feminist reproductive justice activist and scholar (SUNY Albany), does not shy away from the difficult issues facing those determined to provide a full range of reproductive options to women of all ethnicities and economic levels. Her account is nuanced, engrossing, and accessible to students and professionals alike. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice

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In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an "act of violence against women" and "unethical." At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor marketed the practice as "family balancing" and defended it with the rhetoric of freedom of choice. In Gender before Birth, Rajani Bhatia takes on the double standard of how similar practices in the West and non-West are divergently named and framed. Bhatia's extensive fieldwork includes interviews with clinicians, scientists, biomedical service providers, and feminist activists, and her resulting analysis extends both feminist theory on reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. She argues that we are at the beginning of a changing transnational terrain that presents new challenges to theorized inequality in reproduction, demonstrating how the technosciences often get embroiled in colonial gender and racial politics.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0295999217
• ISBN 13: 9780295999210
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264