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.
| ISBN: | 9780822353362 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 2012 |
| Author: | Michelle Murphy |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Experimental Futures |
| Genres: |
Gender studies, gender groups Anthropology Impact of science and technology on society |
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.
Seizing the Means of Reproduction features in the following genres: Gender studies, gender groups, Anthropology, Impact of science and technology on society
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Seizing the Means of Reproduction was written by Michelle Murphy and published by Duke University Press
Seizing the Means of Reproduction has 272 pages
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