Verlag: University Of Washington Press Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 029574281X ISBN 13: 9780295742816
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lorraine K. Bannai is director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and professor of lawyering skills at Seattle University School of Law.
Verlag: University Of Washington Press Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 029574278X ISBN 13: 9780295742786
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth teaches history at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and is owner of the public history consulting business Tundra Vision.
Verlag: University Of Washington Press Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0295999217 ISBN 13: 9780295999210
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an 'act of violence against women' and 'unethical.' At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor marketed the practice as 'family balancing' and defended it with the rhetoric of freedom of choice. In Gender before Birth, Rajani Bhatia takes on the double standard of how similar practices in the West and non-West are divergently named and framed.Bhatia's extensive fieldwork includes interviews with clinicians, scientists, biomedical service providers, and feminist activists, and her resulting analysis extends both feminist theory on reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. She argues that we are at the beginning of a changing transnational terrain that presents new challenges to theorized inequality in reproduction, demonstrating how the technosciences often get embroiled in colonial gender and racial politics.
Verlag: University Of Washington Press Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0295743115 ISBN 13: 9780295743110
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guntra A. Aistara is associate professor of environmental sciences and policy at Central European University in Budapest.
Verlag: University Of Washington Press Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0295999209 ISBN 13: 9780295999203
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an 'act of violence against women' and 'unethical.' At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor marketed the practice as 'family balancing' and defended it with the rhetoric of freedom of choice. In Gender before Birth, Rajani Bhatia takes on the double standard of how similar practices in the West and non-West are divergently named and framed. Bhatia's extensive fieldwork includes interviews with clinicians, scientists, biomedical service providers, and feminist activists, and her resulting analysis extends both feminist theory on reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. She argues that we are at the beginning of a changing transnational terrain that presents new challenges to theorized inequality in reproduction, demonstrating how the technosciences often get embroiled in colonial gender and racial politics.