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Author: Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-07-31
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0520089146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. Using reproduction as an entry point the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation.
Author: Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-07-31
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780520089143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. Using reproduction as an entry point the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation.
Author: Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-09-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780520922457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.
Author: Marcia Claire Inhorn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-05-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520231085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. The contributors address a range of topics including how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame on women's shoulders.
Author: Camillia Cowling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1469610876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Author: Amy Laura Hall
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0802839363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The book is replete with photos and advertisements from popular magazines from the 1930s through the 1950s."--Jacket.
Author: Victoria Maizes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1451645473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Practical advice covering contraception, nutrition, diet, and exercise to increase optimal fertility. Includes information for both males and females and ways for them to curtail environmental factors and stress -- Source other than Library of Congress.
Author: Laura L. Lovett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780807868102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics. Lovett looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic "fitter families" campaign, George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, Lovett shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition to contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, rural studies, and environmental history, Lovett's study sheds light on the rhetoric of "family values" that has regained currency in recent years.
Author: Georg Sørensen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1137483261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The end of the Cold War gave rise to much talk of a 'new' global order and debate about just how new or orderly it was and would be. Attempts to analyse the nature of this order have been many and various. This important new text assesses the main approaches and offers its own analysis arguing that, while chaos and raw anarchy are not on the cards, each of the major domains of power - security, economics, institutions and values - contains elements of potentially major instability. Interstate war may be receding, but there are no simple solutions to comprehensive violent conflict inside fragile states, and the non-democratic great powers continue to have major regional ambitions. There is a global liberal market economy, but it is increasingly unequal and its financial infrastructure remains fragile and crisis-prone. There is a comprehensive set of international institutions but they are rather weak and in need of reform. Liberal values are nominally endorsed by most states but they are in internal conflict and make up no firm basis for a stable world order. Finally, world order is threatened from within because the social compacts, political infrastructures, and national economic capacities of many states will decline. This will have negative consequences for the willingness to bring about effective global governance. The result may be a destructive dynamic which might take us towards a Hobbesian world in ways which Hobbes himself had never imagined.
Author: Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-10-23
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0520928164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media.
