Wombs in Labor

2014-09-23 Social Science

Author : Amrita Pande
Release : 2014-09-23
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Wombs in Labor written by Amrita Pande. This book was released on 2014-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of India's surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. Pande instead advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.

From the Womb to War

1998-11-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Lugoe
Release : 1998-11-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book From the Womb to War written by Lugoe. This book was released on 1998-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battle in My Womb

2024-04-12 Medical

Author : Emmanuel Agboola
Release : 2024-04-12
Genre : Medical
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Download or read book Battle in My Womb written by Emmanuel Agboola. This book was released on 2024-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UNITED STATES MILITARY is made up of the Airforce, the Space force, the Navy, the Marines, the Submarines, the Coastguards, and the Army. BATTLE IN MY WOMB is a war fiction centered around the indomitable and formidable components of the US military and other notable military forces around the world. This fiction is used to simplify and explain the complications, morbidities and mortalities peculiar to the pregnant sickle cell woman [preconceptual, antenatal, intrapartum, peupereum and postpartum]. Just like how other high risk pregnancies need special care, I clearly explained in my book, how these complications and morbidities can be prevented and managed; and how both maternal and fetal mortalities can be reduced to the barest minimum! This is an outstanding Obstetric and gynecological guide to managing the pregnant sickle woman/patient. It stands out amidst other Obstetric and gynecology books in that a relatable story was used to simplify the medical jargon. This guide is perfect for the management of pregnant women with any class of the 7 types sickle cell diseases: Sickle Cell Anemia, Sickle Cell Hemoglobin C Disease / Sickle Hemoglobin C Disease (The "SC" Genotype [HBSC]); Hemoglobin S Beta Plus Thalassemia ( HBS Beta + ); Hemoglobin S Beta Zero Thalassemia (HBS Beta O); Hemoglobin SD, Hemoglobin SE and Hemoglobin SO.

The Other Modernism

2023-04-28 Literary Criticism

Author : Cinzia Sartini Blum
Release : 2023-04-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Other Modernism written by Cinzia Sartini Blum. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of Italian Futurism: technical revolution, espousal of violence, avowed misogyny, and rejection of literary tradition. Blum argues for the centrality of the rhetoric of gender in Marinetti's work. She also investigates a diverse array of his futurist textual practices that range from formal experimentation with "words in freedom" to nationalist manifestos that advocate intervention in World War I and anticipate subsequent fascist rhetoric of power and virility. A major contribution to the study of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the first full-length study of Marinetti in English, The Other Modernism will interest all those concerned with twentieth-century literature, culture, and society and the problem of modern subjectivity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relation

Wombs of Empire

2023-10-10 History

Author : Sujin Lee
Release : 2023-10-10
Genre : History
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Download or read book Wombs of Empire written by Sujin Lee. This book was released on 2023-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues. In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in interwar and wartime Japan, and positions them as critical sites where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethnonationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history.

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