Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction (Paperback)

PREFACE
1. Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order
Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp

ONE • THE POLITICS OF BIRTH/CONTROL
2. A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of the State
in Post-Mao China
Ann Anagnost
3· Modern Bodies, Modern Minds: Midwifery and Reproductive Change
in an African American Community
Gertrude]. Fraser
4· Irniktakpunga!: Sex Determination and the Inuit Struggle
for Birthing Rights in Northern Canada
John D. O'Neil and Patricia Leyland Kaufert

TWO • STRATIFIED REPRODUCTION
5· "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian
Childcare Workers and Employers in New York
Shellee Colen
6. On the Outside Looking In: The Politics of Lesbian Motherhood
Ellen Lewin
7· Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender
Leith Mullings
8. Early Childbearing: What Is the Problem and Who Owns It?
Martha C. Ward

THREE • RETHINKING DEMOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY,
AND SOCIAL POLICY
g. Deadly Reproduction among Egyptian Women: Maternal Mortality
and the Medicalization of Population Control
Soheir A. Morsy
10. Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic Europe:
A Sicilian Case Study
Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider
11. Women's Reproductive Practices and Biomedicine:
Cultural Conflicts and Transformations in Nigeria
Tala Olu Pearce

FOUR • DISASTROUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND
REPRODUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES
12. National Honor and Practical Kinship: Unwanted Women and Children
Veena Das
13. Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania
Gail Kligman
14. From Reproduction to HIV: Blurring Categories, Shifting Positions
Emily Martin
15. Physical and Cultural Reproduction
in a Post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami Community
Sharon Stephens

FIVE • WHAT'S SO NEW ABOUT THE NEW
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES?
16. Public Servants, Professionals, and Feminists:
The Politics of Contraceptive Research in Brazil
Carmen Barroso and Sonia Correa
17. The Normalization of Prenatal Diagnostic Screening
Carole H. Browner and Nancy Ann Press
18. Postmodern Procreation: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction
Sarah Franklin
19. Displacing Knowledge: Technology and the Consequences for Kinship
Marilyn Strathern

SIX • WHAT'S POLITICAL ABOUT REPRODUCTION?
20. Interrogating the Concept of Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century
Ludmillajordanova
21. The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-vision
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
22. Reassessing Reproduction in Social Theory
Annette B. Weiner
23. Misreading Darwin on Reproduction:
Reductionism in Evolutionary Theory
Adrienne L. Zihlman

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS