Cyborg babies : from techno-sex to techno-tots
by Robbie Davis-Floyd; Joseph Dumit, editors
Language: English
New York : Routledge, 1998.
358 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0415916038 ; 9780415916035
Summary: Explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. The text argues that in aspects of childhood from foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture.
Available: https://www.routledge.com/Cyborg-Babies-From-Techno-Sex-to-Techno-Tots/Davis-Floyd-Dumit/p/book/9780415916042
Reproduction, globalization, and the state : new theoretical and ethnographic perspectives
by C. H. Browner; Carolyn Fishel Sargent, editors
Language: English
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
293 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780822349419 ; 0822349418
Summary: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, their fascinating ethnographies provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, paternity tests, sex work, and humanitarian assistance. The contributors address the methodological challenges of research on globalization, including ways of combining fine-grained ethnography with analyses of large-scale political, economic, and ideological forces. Their essays reveal complex interactions among global and state population policies and politics; public health, human rights, and feminist movements; diverse medical systems; various religious practices, doctrines, and institutions; and intimate relationships and individual aspirations.
Available: https://www.dukeupress.edu/reproduction-globalization-and-the-state
