Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0822349604 ISBN 13: 9780822349600

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2011

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Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, their fascinating ethnographies provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, paternity tests, sex work, and humanitarian assistance. The contributors address the methodological challenges of research on globalization, including ways of combining fine-grained ethnography with analyses of large-scale political, economic, and ideological forces. Their essays reveal complex interactions among global and state population policies and politics; public health, human rights, and feminist movements; diverse medical systems; various religious practices, doctrines, and institutions; and intimate relationships and individual aspirations.

Contributors. Aditya Bharadwaj, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Carole H. Browner, Junjie Chen, Aimee R. Eden, Susan L. Erikson, Didier Fassin, Claudia Lee Williams Fonseca, Ellen Gruenbaum, Matthew Gutmann, Marcia C. Inhorn, Mark B. Padilla, Rayna Rapp, Lisa Ann Richey, Carolyn Sargent, Papa Sow, Cecilia Van Hollen, Linda Whiteford

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Carole H. Browner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also Professor of Women’s Studies and in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a co-author of Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine.

Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power and a co-editor of several books, including Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge.

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REPRODUCTION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE STATE

New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

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Contents

FOREWORD / RAYNA RAPP..................................................................................................................................................................................ixACKNOWLEDGMENTS........................................................................................................................................................................................xiiiINTRODUCTION Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches / CAROLE H. BROWNER AND CAROLYN F. SARGENT...............................................1Introduction to Part I.................................................................................................................................................................................191. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method / SUSAN L. ERIKSON................................................................................................................................232. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China / JUNJIE CHEN.......................................................383. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico / MATTHEW GUTMANN.....................................................................................................................534. Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVs and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township / LISA ANN RICHEY......................................................................................685. Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India / CECILIA VAN HOLLEN...................................................................................836. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism / ELLEN GRUENBAUM......................96Introduction to Part II................................................................................................................................................................................1117. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India / ADITYA BHARADWAJ......................................................................................................1138. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State / MARCIA C. INHORN...............................................................................1269. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of dna Paternity Tests in Brazil / CLAUDIA FONSECA........................................................................................138Introduction to Part III...............................................................................................................................................................................15510. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas / MARK B. PADILLA.......................................................................15911. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe / CAROLINE H. BLEDSOE AND PAPA SOW........................................................17512. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France / CAROLYN F. SARGENT.....................19213. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization / CAROLE H. BROWNER...........................................20414. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance / LINDA M. WHITEFORD AND AIMEE R. EDEN................................................................................224EPILOGUE The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations / DIDIER FASSIN.............................................................239REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................................................................................249CONTRIBUTORS...........................................................................................................................................................................................277INDEX..................................................................................................................................................................................................281

Chapter One

SUSAN L. ERIKSON

Global Ethnography Problems of Theory and Method

Ingrid, a raven-haired twenty-nine-year-old medical student almost four months pregnant, strode gracefully into the ultrasound exam room, joining Dr. K and me. Dr. K was the head obstetrician in the ultrasound department, and I had begun my fieldwork in an obstetric hospital in Germany only a few days earlier. Dr. K motioned for Ingrid to sit down in the empty chair on the other side of her desk for the pre-exam chat, and reached to take a blue, passport-sized booklet Ingrid was holding out to her. The booklet was the Mutterpass (literally, the "mother passport") that documented Ingrid's pregnancy and that all women in Germany are required to carry during their pregnancies.

Yes, it was true, Ingrid began slowly, answering Dr. K's question in a voice barely above a whisper. As her Mutterpass documented, she had spina bifida. Just a slight case, though, she added. She had been born with a small hole in the tissue at the base of her spine, and it had been surgically closed soon after her birth. But she was here now because she was concerned about her fetus. Her Frauenarzt (gynecologist or obstetrician in private practice) had recently given her the results from her amniocentesis, and the results for fetal spina bifida were inconclusive. The Frauenarzt had recommended that Ingrid get an ultrasound in Dr. K's hospital department, where the machines produced better images and the doctors had special diagnostic training and experience. As Dr. K described how she would use ultrasound to look for an opening along the fetal spine, Ingrid closed her eyes and folded her tall, thin body forward in the chair, elbows resting on her knees, listening, but sitting very still. When Dr. K was done talking, Ingrid stood up and moved away from the desk like a sleepwalker. She climbed carefully onto the exam table and slowly lay down.

After almost thirty minutes of looking, first with transabdominal and then vaginal ultrasound, Dr. K abruptly gave up. She pulled the gel-covered condom off the vaginal transducer with a snap and told Ingrid she would have to walk around so that "das Kind" would move into a better position for them to see. Ingrid dutifully consented.

Ingrid returned to the waiting room an hour later that morning and waited until after lunch for Dr. K to look again. After about fifteen minutes, Dr. K said it was still too hard to see with enough precision. She had been able to see more of the spine the second time, but the possibility for spina bifida still existed. Come back in a week,...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822349604
• ISBN 13: 9780822349600
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
• Herausgeber: Browner
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