Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience - Couverture souple

Murphy, Michelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822353369 ISBN 13 : 9780822353362

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means--the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes--developed by feminist health activists. They argue that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics.

Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

M. Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and of History at the University of Toronto. They are the author of the Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822353369
• ISBN 13: 9780822353362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
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