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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Opening conversations in reproduction
chapter 2|16 pages
Developmental origins of health and disease
part II|96 pages
Governance, stratification, justice, and freedom
chapter 6|17 pages
The necropolitics of reproduction
chapter 7|14 pages
Reproductive governance in practice
chapter 8|13 pages
Reproduction through revolution
part III|106 pages
Making fertility
chapter 13|16 pages
Infertility, in vitro fertilization, and fertility preservation
part IV|34 pages
Queering reproduction
part V|60 pages
Made and unmade
chapter 22|16 pages
Reproduction in the past
part VI|42 pages
Pregnancy
chapter 24|14 pages
Bringing language into the anthropology of reproduction
chapter 25|13 pages
From couvade to “men's involvement”
part VII|102 pages
Birth
chapter 31|16 pages
Making dignified care the norm
part VIII|48 pages
Postpartum and infant care
part IX|58 pages
Care as reproducing kinship