Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics

Sallie Han is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta, USA. She is the author of Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US (2013), co-editor of The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022). Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA. She is the author of Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma (2014), co-editor of Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022), and numerous other publications.

• 1. Why reproduction matters and what the anthropology of reproduction offers, 2. Menstruation, contraception, and abortion, 3. Infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, and reproductive losses, 4. Pregnancy and birth, 5. Postpartum, infant, and other care, 6. Struggles and movements toward reproductive justice

“The approach is fresh, the writing accessible and engaging. The authors have deep knowledge of the subject and convey it with clarity and enthusiasm […] Han and Tomori are far and away the best scholars for the job.” – Carole H. Browner, Co-editor of Reproduction, Globalization, and the State (Duke 2012), UCLA“Care is taken to situate human reproduction holistically; this is useful not only for students with a background in anthropology – it gives students in other disciplines a different and more complete picture of human reproduction.” – Keri Canada, Colorado State University“Anthropology's holistic approach makes it an ideal discipline for studying reproduction. This text utilizes that comprehensive perspective, emphasizing the importance of understanding diverse contexts—political, economic, historical, and racial—to educate readers on social inequalities.” – Angela Castañeda, DePauw University