Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism,

Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (Experimental Futures)
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In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific meansâ€”the technologies, practices, protocols, and processesâ€”developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics.
Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.
Country USA
Brand Duke University Press
Manufacturer Duke University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 24 illustrations
ReleaseDate 2012-11-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780822353362

Country	USA
Brand	Duke University Press
Manufacturer	Duke University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	24 illustrations
ReleaseDate	2012-11-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780822353362

Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (Experimental Futures)

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