Title:
Gender before birth : sex selection in a transnational context / Rajani Bhatia.
Author:
Bhatia, Rajani, author.
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Call Number:
QP279 .B43 2018
Abstract:
This book breaks new ground on the evolution and present technologies and practices of lifestyle sex selection, builds on and critiques feminist and STS theories of reproduction to develop the new concept of biopopulationism, and engages with the messy politics of sex selection in the United States.
ISBN:
9780295999203
9780295999210
Series:
Feminist technosciences
Feminist technosciences.
Physical Description:
xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: lifestyle sex selection -- From selecting sexed sperm and embryos to the anticipation of lifestyle sex selection -- Incorporating a new technology of hope into Fertility Inc.: the constitution of a maternal subject -- Extending into a global market: lifestyle sex selection as a cross-border practice -- Contesting the known: an arc of activism on sex selection in the United States -- Conclusion: toward a feminist intersectional perspective on sex selection.
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