Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics 
edited by Marcia R. England; Maria Fannin; Helen Hazen
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ©2019. 
x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780815386193 ; 0815386192 
Summary: The sites, spaces, and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales--body, home, local, national, global--and movements across space. This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The chapters directly address global perspectives, the future of reproductive politics and state-focused approaches to the politicization of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The book provides up-to-date explorations on the changing landscapes of reproduction, including the expansion of reproductive technologies, such as surrogacy and intrauterine insemination. Contributions in this book focus on phenomenologically inspired accounts of women's lived experience of pregnancy and birth, the biopolitics of birth and citizenship, the material histories of reproductive tissues as "scientific objects" and engagements with public health and development policy. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Geographies-Politics-Routledge-International/dp/0815386192/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Social aspects
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India
by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Language: English
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1138610968 ; 9781138610965
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realized.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Fertility-Health-Reproductive-Politics-Re-imagining/dp/1138610968
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- India
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects