Product Description: Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible...read more

Product Description: This book is a collection of multidisciplinary case studies on biopolitical practices and discourses. The chapters discuss the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in the Arab states, Israel, and Serbia; the biopolitics of abortion in Poland and Hungary; abortion used as a method of sex selection in Georgia, Armenia and India, and sex selection used to avoid abortion in the Arab states and in Germany...read more

Product Description: Reproductive choices are at once the most private and intimate decisions we make in our lives and, undeniably, also among the most public. Reproductive decision-making takes place in a web of overlapping concerns - political, ideological, socio-economic, and health - all of which engage the public and involve strongly held opinions and attitudes about appropriate conduct on the part of individuals and the State...read more

Product Description: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world...read more