Reproductive Technologies, Reproductive Futures
ANTH 211
Fall 2014 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 211, SISP 211 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
Though around for more than 60 years now, the reproductive technologies--from contraceptives to gestational surrogacy to transspecies reproduction--still seem as new and as cutting-edge as ever. These technologies promise to reconfigure life as we know it, spawning controversial, and, to many, liberating kinship and social formations, harrowing ethical dilemmas, unprecedented reproductive contractual arrangements, and, more recently, a growing market in the transnational traffic of gametes and gestational services. Through feminist, anthropological, and historical lenses, we will contextualize and query this global phenomenon of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) with special attention to their social impact on human lives, kinship formation, imaginations of the facts of life, and knowledge/power. We will also consider their uses in neoliberal projects of globalized health, social reform, and economic redress in the global South. Topics include technology and the body; gender, sexuality, and health; race, class, and the biopolitics of reproduction; reproduction and the state; reproduction and the law; reproduction and intellectual property; cultures of reproductive science and medicine; feminist critiques of reproduction. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Marilyn Strathern, REPRODUCING THE FUTURE
Charis Thompson, MAKING PARENTS: THE ONTOLOGICAL CHOREOGRAPHY OF REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Marcia Inhorn, LOCAL BABIES, GLOBAL SCIENCE:GENDER, RELIGION, AND IN VITRO FERTILIZATION IN EGYPT
Tulsi Patel, SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION IN INDIA: GENDER, SOCIETY, AND NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Rayna Rapp, TESTING WOMEN, TESTING THE FETUS: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF AMNIOCENTESIS ON AMERICA
Elizabeth Roberts, GOD'S LABORATORY: ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN THE ANDES
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly reading reflections and questions, a class presentation, two short papers, and a final research project. |
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