Seizing the Means of Reproductionкнига
Аннотация: Feminism in/as BiopoliticsSex changed in the second half of the twentieth century.With the aid of synthetic hormones, immortal tissue cultures, and delicate pipettes the very biological processes of human fertility, and even the sexual form of the body as male and female, became profoundly manipulable.Labs and clinics were vital spaces to this transformation of sex, but so too were state departments of finance and aid agencies, as well as supranational organizations such as the World Bank.Large-scale national and transnational schemes encouraged the technological limiting of births, distributing birth control pills, iuds, and surgical sterilization to millions, helping to alter the fertility of entire populations for the sake of a greater economic good.The alterability of reproduction in its aggregate form-as "population"-became a shifting planetary problem amenable to technical, state, and market solutions.Sex's changeability expanded further, beyond humans, to intensify in the animal and plant kingdoms as agribusiness mutated seeds into patentable commodities, and livestock was bred with artificial insemination and embryo transfer.This rapidly emerging technical ability to alter human and nonhuman reproduction, stretching from molecular to transnational economic scales, was accompanied by new problems and promises for the politicization of life-not just should, but how could reproduction be transformed?Feminists in California during the 1970s answered this promise by politicizing the details of biomedical practice.They appropriated, revised, and invented reproductive health care techniques: making photographic diaries of cervical variation, crafting politicized health manuals, examin-
Год издания: 2012
Авторы: Michelle Murphy
Издательство: Duke University Press
Источник: Duke University Press eBooks
Ключевые слова: Reproductive Health and Technologies, Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
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