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Birth controlled : selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India /

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction - interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition - by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pande, Amrita
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Colección:Governing intimacies in the global South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Foreword
  • Editor's acknowledgement
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Birth projects
  • Birth projects, selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics
  • Spectres of biological politics: conversations within and across South Asia
  • Ved Garbh Vihar: Hindutva's latest neo-eugenic repronational project
  • Racialising ancient skeletons: how haplogroups are mobilised in the re-writing of origin stories in the Indian media
  • Bio-power and assisted reproductive technologies in the global south: an ethical response from South Africa informed by vulnerability and justice
  • Part II: Birth violated
  • Injectable contraceptives: technologies of power and language of rights
  • Stratified and violent: young women's experiences of access to reproductive health in southern Africa
  • The politics of naming: contested vocabularies of birth violence
  • Individuals, institutions, and the global political economy: unpacking intentionality in obstetric violence
  • Part III: Birth assisted
  • Caste and the stratification of reproductive labour: Dalit feminist voices from the field
  • Hamstrung by hardship: protecting egg donors' reproductive labour in Kolkata, India
  • The egg donation economy in South Africa: different levels of biopolitics
  • Subjects of scarcity: making white egg providers in the repro-hub of South Africa
  • The resurgence of eugenics through egg donation in South Africa: race as a central and 'obvious' choice
  • Epilogue
  • Index