Reproductive Disruptions

Marcia C. Inhorn is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of four books on the subject. Her publications include Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, winner of Eileen Basker Prize for outstanding research in gender and health), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge Press, 2003).

• PrefaceMarcia C. InhornIntroduction: Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 EthnographiesMarcia C. InhornAppendixList of AbbreviationsPART I: REPRODUCTION AND DISRUPTION: REDEFINING THE CONTOURS OF NORMALCYChapter 1. The Dialectics of Disruption: Paradoxes of Nature and Professionalism in Contemporary American ChildbearingCaroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel ScherrerChapter 2. Designing a Woman-Centered Health Care Approach to Pregnancy Loss: Lessons from Feminist Models of ChildbirthLinda LayneChapter 3. Enlarging Reproduction, Screening DisabilityRayna Rapp and Faye GinsburgChapter 4. Openness in Adoption: Re-Thinking “Family” in the USHarold D. GrotevantPART II: REPRODUCTION, GENDER AND BIOPOLITICS: lOCAL-GLOBAL INTERSECIONS AND CONTESTATATIONSChapter 5. Can Gender “Equity” in Prenatal Genetic Services Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority?C. H. BrownerChapter 6. When the Personal is Political: Contested Reproductive Strategies among West African Migrants in FranceCarolyn SargentChapter 7. Reproductive Disruptions and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim WorldMarcia C. InhornChapter 8. The Final Disruption? Biopolitics of Post-Reproductive LifeMargaret LockList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“This volume engages with the politics of human reproduction and will prove an invaluable teaching resource in that field and beyond…[It] thus marks something of a watershed, and there are some fascinating tensions and contrasts to be found here.”  ·  JRAI“This anthology contains important entries from many award-winning senior ethnologists and cultural or medical anthropologists coming from various theoretical perspectives but all addressing intersecting levels of inequality.”  ·  Science & Society