Pande / Unknown Birth controlled

Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6055-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Governing Intimacies in the Global South

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction – interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition – by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Pande, Amrita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Betsy Hartmann
Introduction – Amrita Pande
Prologue: Malika Ndlovu

Part I: Birth projects
1 Birth Projects, Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics – Amrita Pande
2 Spectres of biological politics: conversations within and across South Asia – Sushmita Chatterjee, Deboleena Roy, Banu Subramaniam
3 Ved Garbh Vihar: Hindutva’s latest neo-eugenic repronational project – Vasudha Mohanka
4 Racialising ancient skeletons: how haplotypes are mobilised in the re-writing of origin
stories in the Indian media – Devika Prakash
5 Bio-power and assisted reproductive technologies in the global south: An ethical response
from South Africa – Manitza Kotze

Part II: Birth violated
6 Injectable contraceptives: technologies of power and language of rights – C. Sathyamala
7 Stratified and violent: young women’s experiences of access to reproductive health in southern Africa – Kezia Batisai
8 The politics of naming: contested vocabularies of birth violence – Rachelle Chadwick
9 Individuals, institutions, and the global political economy: unpacking intentionality in obstetric violence – Sreeparna Chattopadhyay

Part III: Birth assisted
10 ‘The first thing is to…survive’: Dalit feminist voices on reproductive rights in India – Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Mohan Rao
11 Hamstrung by hardship: protecting egg donors’ reproductive labour in Kolkata, India – Meghna Mukherjee
12 The egg donation economy in South Africa: different levels of biopolitics – Verena Namberger
13 Subjects of scarcity: making white egg providers in the repro-hub of South Africa – Tessa Moll
14 The resurgence of eugenics through egg donation in South Africa: race as a central and ‘obvious’ choice – Rufaro Moyo

Epilogue: Malika Ndlovu

Über Autor(innen)

Amrita Pande is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town