Infertility In A Crowded Country
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Author |
: Holly Donahue Singh |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2022-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253063885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253063884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infertility in a Crowded Country by : Holly Donahue Singh
In Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, the stigmas and colonial legacies surrounding sexual propriety and population growth affect how Muslim women, often in poverty, cope with infertility. In Infertility in a Crowded Country, Holly Donahue Singh draws on interviews, observation, and autoethnographic perspectives in local communities and Lucknow's infertility clinics to examine access to technology and treatments and to explore how pop culture shapes the reproductive paths of women and their supporters through clinical spaces, health camps, religious sites, and adoption agencies. Donahue Singh finds that women are willing to transgress social and religious boundaries to seek healing. By focusing on interpersonal connections, Infertility in a Crowded Country provides a fascinating starting point for discussions of family, kinship, and gender; the global politics of reproduction and reproductive technologies; and ideologies and social practices around creating families.
Author |
: Marcia Inhorn |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2002-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520927810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520927818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infertility around the Globe by : Marcia Inhorn
This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it is the first book to investigate the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Provocative and incisive, it is the most substantial work to date on the subject of infertility. With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors address a far-reaching array of topics: why infertility has been neglected in population studies, how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame squarely on women's shoulders, how infertility and its treatment transform family dynamics and relationships, and the distribution of medical and marital power. The chapters present informed and sophisticated investigations into cultural perceptions of infertility in numerous countries, including China, India, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the nations of Europe. Poised to become the quintessential reference on infertility from an international social science perspective, Infertility around the Globe makes a powerful argument that involuntary childlessness is a complex phenomenon that has far-reaching significance worldwide.
Author |
: Edward E. Curtis IV |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2023-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231558525 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023155852X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Across the Worlds of Islam by : Edward E. Curtis IV
Muslim people are found all over the world. Most live outside the Middle East, from Asia to the Americas. The vast majority of contemporary Muslims are not fluent in Arabic, and speakers of languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Turkish have made essential contributions to Islamic history and culture. However, typical courses on Islam tend to downplay areas beyond the Middle East, focusing on Arabic texts and elite theological and doctrinal arguments. This book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam, investigating ethics and aesthetics as much as scriptures and theology. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities. Contributors from a range of personal and intellectual backgrounds explore the capaciousness of Muslim identities, helping readers achieve a broader understanding of the past, present, and future of the Muslim world. This book includes communities such as the Nation of Islam and Alevi Muslims, and it goes beyond rituals like prayer and fasting to consider a wider array of practices, such as tattooing. Across the Worlds of Islam is at once student-friendly and cutting-edge, written with both introductory courses and general readers in mind. Examining Muslim identity and practice from the perspective of the margins, it offers nuanced portraits of Muslim life across geographic and sectarian divisions.
Author |
: Katie King |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253209056 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253209054 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory in Its Feminist Travels by : Katie King
Katie King examines the development of U.S. feminist theory, tracing its inception, rocky development, and internecine struggles. She argues that the subject matter of women's studies is cultural studies. "This book should definitively alter the map of contemporary feminist theory in the U.S. and abroad... " --Donna Landry
Author |
: Liz Conor |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2004-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253216702 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253216700 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spectacular Modern Woman by : Liz Conor
Liz Conor explores the role of media technology in the emergence of the 'modern woman' in the 1920s. At once liberating & confining, the media images of women set standards of appearance that were closely tied to ideas about the roles a woman could fulfill, from city girl to mannekin to flapper.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 1993-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309048972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309048974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa by : National Research Council
This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
Author |
: Mytheli Sreenivas |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2021-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295748856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295748850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by : Mytheli Sreenivas
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 1998-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309058964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309058961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Death to Birth by : National Research Council
The last 35 years or so have witnessed a dramatic shift in the demography of many developing countries. Before 1960, there were substantial improvements in life expectancy, but fertility declines were very rare. Few people used modern contraceptives, and couples had large families. Since 1960, however, fertility rates have fallen in virtually every major geographic region of the world, for almost all political, social, and economic groups. What factors are responsible for the sharp decline in fertility? What role do child survival programs or family programs play in fertility declines? Casual observation suggests that a decline in infant and child mortality is the most important cause, but there is surprisingly little hard evidence for this conclusion. The papers in this volume explore the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of the fertility-mortality relationship. It includes several detailed case studies based on contemporary data from developing countries and on historical data from Europe and the United States.
Author |
: Nancy Tuana |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1989-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253113385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253113382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feminism and Science by : Nancy Tuana
"... thoughtful critiques of the myriad issues between women and science." -- Belles Lettres "Outstanding collection of essays that raise the fundamental questions of gender in what we have been taught are objective sciences." -- WATERwheel "... all of the articles are well written, informative, and convincing. Admirable editorial work makes this anthology unusually helpful for scholars and students... Highly recommended... " -- Choice Questioning the objectivity of scientific inquiry, this volume addresses the scope of gender bias in science. The contributors examine the ways in which science is affected by and reinforces sexist biases. The essays reveal science to be a cultural institution, structured by the political, social, and economic values of the culture within which it is practiced.
Author |
: Giovanna Parmigiani |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2019-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253043405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253043409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy by : Giovanna Parmigiani
Can the way a word is used give legitimacy to a political movement? Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy traces the use of the word "femminicidio" (or "femicide") as a tool to mobilize Italian feminists, particularly the Union of Women in Italy (UDI). Based on nearly two years of fieldwork among feminist activists, Giovanna Parmigiani takes a broad look at the many ways in which violence inflects the lives of women in Italy. From unchallenged gendered grammar rules to the representation of women as victims, Parmigiani examines the devaluing of women’s contribution to their communities through the words and experiences of the women she interviews. She describes the first uses of the word "femminicidio" as a political term used by and within feminist circles and traces its spread to ultimate legitimization and national relevance. The word redefined women as a political subject by building an imagined community of potentially violated women. In doing so, it challenged Italians to consider the status of women in Italian society, and to make this status a matter of public debate. It also problematized the connection between women and tropes of women as objects of suffering and victimhood. Parmigiani considers this exchange within the context of Italian Catholic heritage, a precarious economy, and long-held notions of honor and shame. Parmigiani provides a careful and searing consideration of the ways in which representations of violence and the politics of this representation are shaping the future of women in Italy and beyond.