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

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

• Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation
• Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology)
• Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
• Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction
• The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
• Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (The Anthropology of Everyday Life)
• Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
• Kinship and Gender: An Introduction
• Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society
• The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East