ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction. The book brings together work from across the discipline of anthropology, with contributions by established and emerging scholars in archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology. Across these areas of research, consideration is given to the contexts, conditions, and contingencies that mark and shape the experiences of reproduction as always gendered, classed, and racialized. Over 39 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including:
- Reproductive governance, stratification, justice, and freedom.
- Fertility and infertility.
- Technologies and imaginations.
- Queering reproduction.
- Pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive loss.
- Postpartum and infant care.
- Care, kinship, and alloparenting.
This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology and related disciplines associated with reproduction, including sociology, gender studies, science and technology studies, human development and family studies, global health, public health, medicine, medical humanities, and midwifery and nursing.
Introduction Part I Opening conversations in reproduction 1. Conceiving Reproduction in Biological Anthropology 2. Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Evidence, Proposed Mechanisms, and Ideas for Future Applications 3. Men and Reproduction: Perspectives from Biological Anthropology 4. Conceiving of Reproduction in Archaeology Part II Governance, stratification, justice, and freedom 5. Reproduction and the State 6. The Necropolitics of Reproduction: Racism, Resistance, and the Sojourner Syndrome in the Age of the Movement for Black Lives 7. Reproductive Governance in Practice: A Comparison of State-Provided Reproductive Health Care in Cuba and the United States 8. Reproduction through Revolution: Maoist Women’s Struggle for Equity in Post-Development Nepal 9. Policy, Governance, Practice: Global Perspectives on Abortion 10. Sterile Choices: Racialized Women, Reproductive Freedom, and Social Justice Part III Making fertility 11. Menstruation: Causes, Consequences, and Context 12. Menstruation: Sociocultural Perspectives 13. Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, and Fertility Preservation: Global Perspectives 14. Global IVF and Local Practices: The Case of Ghana 15. Eggs 16. Surrogacy Part IV Queering reproduction 17. The Racial Contours of Queer Reproduction 18. Invisible Hands: The Reproductivities of Queer(ing) and Race(ing) Gynecology Part V Made and unmade: Personhood and reproduction 19. "Personhood" in the Anthropology of Reproduction 20. Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis 21. Navigating Reproductive Losses 22. Reproduction in the Past: A Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Fetus and Its Significance Part VI Pregnancy 23. Pregnancy and the Anthropology of Reproduction 24. Bringing Language into the Anthropology of Reproduction: The Text and Talk of Pregnancy 25. From Couvade to "Men’s Involvement": Sociocultural Perspectives of Expectant Fatherhood Part VII Birth 26. The Obstetrical Dilemma Revisited--Revisited 27. There Is No Evolutionary "Obstetrical Dilemma" 28. Midwifery in Cross-Cultural Perspectives 29. Doulas: Negotiating Boundaries in Birth 30. Rituals and Rites of Childbirth across Cultures 31. Making Dignified Care the Norm: Examining Obstetric Violence and Reproductive Justice in Kenya 32. Maternal Mortality Part VIII Postpartum and infant care 33. Making Space for Lactation in the Anthropology of Reproduction 34. The Bioarchaeology of Infant Feeding 35. Biocultural Perspectives on Infant Sleep Part IX Care as reproducing kinship 36. Menopause 37. The Shifting Role of Grandmothers in Global Reproduction Strategies 38. Alloparenting: Evolutionary Origins and Contemporary Significance of Cooperative Childrearing as a Key Feature of Human Reproduction 39. Adoption and Fostering Glossary
