Infertility in a Crowded Country
Hiding Reproduction in India
Seiten
2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06386-1 (ISBN)
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06386-1 (ISBN)
In Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, the stigmas and colonial legacies surrounding sexual propriety and population growth affect how Muslim women, often in poverty, cope with infertility.
In Infertility in a Crowded Country, Holly Donahue Singh draws on interviews, observation, and autoethnographic perspectives in local communities and Lucknow's infertility clinics to examine access to technology and treatments and to explore how pop culture shapes the reproductive paths of women and their supporters through clinical spaces, health camps, religious sites, and adoption agencies. Donahue Singh finds that women are willing to transgress social and religious boundaries to seek healing.
By focusing on interpersonal connections, Infertility in a Crowded Country provides a fascinating starting point for discussions of family, kinship, and gender; the global politics of reproduction and reproductive technologies; and ideologies and social practices around creating families.
In Infertility in a Crowded Country, Holly Donahue Singh draws on interviews, observation, and autoethnographic perspectives in local communities and Lucknow's infertility clinics to examine access to technology and treatments and to explore how pop culture shapes the reproductive paths of women and their supporters through clinical spaces, health camps, religious sites, and adoption agencies. Donahue Singh finds that women are willing to transgress social and religious boundaries to seek healing.
By focusing on interpersonal connections, Infertility in a Crowded Country provides a fascinating starting point for discussions of family, kinship, and gender; the global politics of reproduction and reproductive technologies; and ideologies and social practices around creating families.
Holly Donahue Singh is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Judy Genshaft Honors College and Affiliated Faculty in the Departments of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida.
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Hiding Reproduction
1. Aulad: Reproductive Desires
2. Preludes to Aulad: Making Mothers
3. Clinical Dreams: Measuring Hope
4. Reproductive Realities: Managing Inequality
5. Quietly Planning Families: Misdirecting Convention
Conclusion: Reproductive Openings and Reproductive Justice in Contemporary India
Afterword: Family Plans, Or, Waiting for Aulad
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 21 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 676 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-06386-8 / 0253063868 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-06386-1 / 9780253063861 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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