"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. This collection provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the current issues surrounding gender and procreation. Topics addressed within these chapters include feminist history and reproductive rights, reproductivecare, midwifery, obstetric violence, trans pregnancy, abortion, IVF, LGBTQ inclusive maternity care, obstetric racism, gender and parenting, from a diverse range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, and midwifery. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an urgent and necessary overview of research in these topics, which will provide an essential resource to those studying these topics as well as practitioners"--
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism.
This collection provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the current issues surrounding gender and procreation. Topics addressed within these chapters include feminist history and reproductive rights, reproductive care, midwifery, obstetric violence, trans pregnancy, abortion, IVF, LGBTQ inclusive maternity care, obstetric racism, gender, and parenting from a diverse range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, and midwifery.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an urgent and necessary overview of research in these areas, and is an essential resource for those studying these topics as well as practitioners.
This edited collection provides an in-depth approach to issues of reproductive autonomy and reproductive justice from a range of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. It will provide an essential resource to those studying these topics as well as practitioners.
Introduction Part I: Constructing Kinship: Experiences of Gendered
Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting
1. Haunted Frames: Feminist Stories of
Procreative Labour
2. Maternal Ambivalence and the Gender of Mothers
3.
Difference as a Feminist Antidote to the Pathologization and Commodification
of Breastfeeding
4. Okāwīmāwaskiy: Learning From The Mother of the Land
5.
Queer Kinship and Technologies: Challenges and Queer Erasures
6. The
(Non-)Marital Bargain
7. Adoption and Gender in the United States
8.
Cisgender Mens Narratives on Expected and Actual Reactions to their Desires
to be Pregnant and/or Gestational Parents: Cisheteropatriarchy,
Repronormativity, and the Normative Gendering of Pregnancy
9. Male Mothers,
Female Fathers Part II: Reproductive Injustices: Obstetric Racism,
Criminalization, and Reproductive Violence
10. Obstetric Violence, A Latin
American Concept
11. An Introduction to the Framework of Obstetric Racism:
Theory and Intellectual Lineage
12. Obstetric Violence in Global North: The
Netherlands, the United States, and Beyond
13. Be and it is!: Muslim
Cosmologies of Care, Desire, and the Reproduction of Life
14. Accountability
for Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism: New Pathways for Families
Seeking Justice
15. The Case for Birth Equity in the United States
16. Beyond
Barriers: Infertility as a Reproductive Justice Issue Among Marginalised
Communities
17. Coloniality of Science in the Most Beautiful Indian Contest:
Eugenics, Gender, and Race in Postrevolutionary Mexico
18. Abortion through
the Lens of Reproductive Justice
19. Whose Ethos?: A Case of Indian Surrogacy
Law and its Moral Bedrock Part III: Reproductive Care: Midwifery,
Reproductive Technologies, and Gender
20. Difference and Resistance: Radical
Engagement in Challenging the Structures of Maternity Services
21. Black
Womens Social Egg Freezing Experiences: A Reproductive Justice Vision
22.
The Paradigm Shifts Made by Deeply Humanistic and Holistic Obstetricians:
Ideological Transformations, Benefits, Ostracisms, and Persecutions
23.
Trans/Parent Pregnancy: (In)visibility of Gender Diversity in Reproductive
Health Care
24. Decoupling Gender from Midwifery: A Utopian Vision
25. Are
Women Changing Birth Settings for a Positive Birthing Experience in India? A
Critical Analysis Using Arts-Based Research
26. Maternal Ontologies,
Birth-Work and the Race Question in Assisted Reproductive Technology: Towards
a Philosophical Framework Rooted in Transnational Feminism
27. Markets in
Babies
28. The Medico-Legal Authorization of Disability-Selective Pregnancy
Termination: Comparing Frameworks and Practices in Denmark and Austria
29.
Reinventing Midwifery: Epistemic Syncretism and Midwife-Doula Boundaries in
Portuguese Home Births
Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. She held the 2019 Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and has held visiting professorships and Fulbright awards in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Newnham is Associate Professor of Midwifery at Flinders University and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. Her clinical practice, teaching, and research have focused on seeking social justice solutions for humanizing birth, currently through the development of four research streams: ethics, technology, environment, and practice.
Rodante van der Waal is a PhD candidate in care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht and an independent midwife in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on obstetric violence and reproductive justice from feminist, postcolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. She is a founding member of the Critical Midwifery Studies Collective and the editor of Contractions, a political podcast on midwifery.
Christie Sillo is a sociologist. She holds a PhD in sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York; an MA in sociology from City College; and a BA in American studies from the University of Connecticut. Her doctoral research explored how interracial couples are being digitally constructed and consumed on Instagram
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