Birth Controlled  Selective Reproduction and Neoliberal Eugenics in South Africa and India

Birth Controlled

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction â interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition â by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies. -- .... Les mer...
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<p><i>Birth controlled</i> analyses the world of selective reproduction - the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future - through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of ''controlling'' birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate; what evolves is the preferred mode of control. Although new technologies like those that assist conception or allow genetic selection may appear to be an antithesis of other violent versions of population control, this book demonstrates that both are part of the same continuum. All population control policies target and vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance; <i>Birth controlled</i> argues that assisted reproductive technologies and repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden of bla

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