Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives – serie
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Fatness and the Maternal Body
Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy
Av Maya Unnithan-Kumar, Soraya Tremayne
Inbunden, 2011
1936 kr
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Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how …
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Häftad, 2011
454 kr
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Clarke engages in a thorough and captivating assessment of the numerous fatwas issued in the context of global Islamic legal scholarship concerning medical ethics, in particular, medically assisted conception ...This book will be of considerable interest to scholars in the areas of gender and …
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Av Sarah Pinto
Häftad, 2011
543 kr
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In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and …
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Av Jeanette Edwards, Carles Salazar
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary …
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Sunni and Shia Perspectives
Av Marcia C. Inhorn, Soraya Tremayne
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This …
Transgressive Sex
Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters
Av Hastings Donnan, Fiona Magowan
Häftad, 2012
512 kr
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Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social …
Kinship and Beyond
The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Av Sandra Bamford, James Leach
Häftad, 2012
516 kr
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The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in …
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the …
Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Häftad, 2012
348 kr
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“[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general.”—Social AnthropologySince 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little …
Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Häftad, 2012
516 kr
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The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies …
Managing Reproductive Life
Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Häftad, 2001
527 kr
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Throughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different ways communities regulate their fertility, penetrating every aspect of their social life, are so varied and specific that …
Modern Babylon?
Prostituting Children in Thailand
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "commercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as …
Managing Reproductive Life
Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Inbunden, 2002
1861 kr
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Throughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different ways communities regulate their fertility, penetrating every aspect of their social life, are so varied and specific that …
New Look At Thai Aids
Perspectives from the Margin
Inbunden, 2004
1880 kr
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Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000’s the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature portrayed the epidemic as being largely under …
Ageing Without Children
European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks
Av Philip Kreager, Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Inbunden, 2005
1921 kr
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Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection …
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
Inbunden, 2006
1921 kr
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Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; …
Nameless Relations
Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
Inbunden, 2005
1936 kr
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Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience – the …
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Inbunden, 2004
1979 kr
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Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, …
Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
Av Mara Mabilia
Inbunden, 2005
2040 kr
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Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of …
Modern Babylon?
Prostituting Children in Thailand
Inbunden, 2002
1867 kr
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Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as …
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Inbunden, 2014
2047 kr
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Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves. Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the …
Globalized Fatherhood
Av Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2123 kr
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Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men’s experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new …
Cousin Marriages
Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
Inbunden, 2015
1916 kr
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Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It …
Achieving Procreation
Childlessness and IVF in Turkey
Inbunden, 2015
1979 kr
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Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores …
Thai in Vitro
Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
Inbunden, 2015
1916 kr
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In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai …
Pregnancy in Practice
Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Av Sallie Han
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound “baby pictures” to friends and co-workers, and …
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase
Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds
Av Kate Hampshire, Bob Simpson
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Following the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the “First Phase” of ARTs. In the “Second Phase,” these treatments …
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Sunni and Shia Perspectives
Av Marcia C. Inhorn, Soraya Tremayne
Häftad, 2015
532 kr
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How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This …
Parenthood between Generations
Transforming Reproductive Cultures
Av Siân Pooley, Kaveri Qureshi
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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Recent literature has identified modern “parenting” as an expert-led practice—one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts …
Patient-Centred IVF
Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily clinical practices. Through the ethnographic …
