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Release: 2012-11-26
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0822353369
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Seizing the Means of Reproduction pdf
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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 means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—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 comp Download Seizing the Means of Reproduction for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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