Maya Unnithan

Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Re-imagining Rights in India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, the book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429878763
• Artikelnr.: 56834151

Autorenporträt

Maya Unnithan is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH) in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Fertile subjects: Global reproductive politics at the
intersections of caste, class and gender, Chapter 2. State empowerment and
reproductive control, Chapter 3. Infertility and other reproductive
anxieties: An ontological challenge to 'reproductive health' and 'rights',
Chapter 4. Sex selective abortion and reproductive morality: Technology and
the discourse on rights, Chapter 5. Maternal risk and its mediation:
Learning from health-worker vulnerabilities, Chapter 6. Altruism and the
politics of legislating reproductive labour: Why surrogacy matters, Chapter
7. Making Rights Real: Legal activism and social responsibility, Chapter 8.
Re-imagining rights: Reproductive politics and the quest for justice