Rayna Rapp: 3 books
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State
New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
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...
by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark...
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research...