Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings

Carole Joffe, Jennifer Reich, Carole Joffe, Jennifer Reich

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317623465
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

A collection of essays, framed with original introductions, Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings helps students to think critically about reproduction as a social phenomenon. Divided into six rich and varied sections, this book offers students and instructors a broad overview of the social meanings of reproduction and offers opportunities to explore significant questions of how resources are allocated, individuals are regulated, and how very much is at stake as people and communities aim to determine their own family size and reproductive experiences. This is an ideal core text for courses on reproduction, sexuality, gender, the family, and public health.

Index

abortion 1, 21, 45–50, 173; access 6, 7, 48–9, 70, 72; advertising 58n2; advocacy organizations 69; African Americans and 49, 75–8; Alabama parental consent statute 90–3, 97n10; aspiration 47; and assisted reproduction 9–10; availability 45–6; bans 3–4; billboard campaigns 49; and birth defects 227–8; and black genocide 49; in China 260–1, 265; clinic invasions 49–50; conflict 9; and contraception 9, 16–7; and contraception failure 72, 74n36; cost 48–9; counseling 8, 62, 90; criminalization 51–2, 210, 211; critique of rare 69–72; deaths 58, 58n6; definition 45; delegitimization 69–70; developing world 45–6; dilation and extraction 47–8; and disabled women 226, 227–8, 230–1; Ethiopia 263; facilities 70; feminism and 4–5, 58, 58n3, 68, 230–1; and fetal anomaly 65; fetal guardianship 90–7; future of 50; frequency 71; funding 48–9, 70, 207, 232, 239; history 51–8; homemade 19–20; hospital committees 57–8; illegal 46, 52–7; incarcerated women 218; in India 265–6; individualization of responsibility 69–70; induction method 48; interest groups 8, 50; lack of public funding 6; legal regime 70–1; legalization 2, 46, 60, 69; marginalization of 70; medication 47, 65, 67n4; men and 50, 78–89; and mental health 69–70; and Mexican women 49; motivation 47; murder charges 211–2, 212–3; no-abortion policies 66; numbers of illegal 52; opinion polls 50; opposition 8, 49–50; parental consent 90–7; patients 46; physician ambivalence 64–5; physician autonomy 66; polarization around 45; police and 56–7; policies 66; post-24 week 48; practice avoidance 63–4; practice constraints 59–66; and pregnancy loss 174; pro-choice movement 59; professional sanctions 62, 63–4; provider...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Perspectives on Gender
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Reproduction and the Public Interest in Private Acts
• Section I: Contraception and Sterilization
• Section II: Abortion
• Section III: Reproductive Technologies
• Section IV: Pregnancy and Birth
• Section V: Special Populations Targeted for Reproductive Control
• Section VI: The Way Forward Moving Toward Reproductive Justice
• References
• Contributor Biographies
• Credits
• Index