Birth Controlled

Amrita Pande is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town

AAA Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Monograph Prize 2024 Honorable Mention

• Foreword - Betsy HartmannIntroduction – Amrita PandePrologue: Malika Ndlovu Part I: Birth projects1 Birth Projects, Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics – Amrita Pande 2 Spectres of biological politics: conversations within and across South Asia – Sushmita Chatterjee, Deboleena Roy, Banu Subramaniam 3 Ved Garbh Vihar: Hindutva’s latest neo-eugenic repronational project – Vasudha Mohanka 4 Racialising ancient skeletons: how haplotypes are mobilised in the re-writing of origin stories in the Indian media – Devika Prakash5 Bio-power and assisted reproductive technologies in the global south: An ethical response from South Africa – Manitza KotzePart II: Birth violated6 Injectable contraceptives: technologies of power and language of rights – C. Sathyamala 7 Stratified and violent: young women’s experiences of access to reproductive health in southern Africa – Kezia Batisai8 The politics of naming: contested vocabularies of birth violence – Rachelle Chadwick9 Individuals, institutions, and the global political economy: unpacking intentionality in obstetric violence – Sreeparna ChattopadhyayPart III: Birth assisted10 ‘The first thing is to…survive’: Dalit feminist voices on reproductive rights in India – Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Mohan Rao 11 Hamstrung by hardship: protecting egg donors’ reproductive labour in Kolkata, India – Meghna Mukherjee 12 The egg donation economy in South Africa: different levels of biopolitics – Verena Namberger 13 Subjects of scarcity: making white egg providers in the repro-hub of South Africa – Tessa Moll14 The resurgence of eugenics through egg donation in South Africa: race as a central and ‘obvious’ choice – Rufaro Moyo Epilogue: Malika Ndlovu