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15 - Anthropologies of Reproduction, Abortion, and Biopolitics

from Part Three - Resistances and Intersections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2023

By
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Edited by
Cecilia McCallum ,
Silvia Posocco  and
Martin Fotta
Cecilia McCallum
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Silvia Posocco
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, University of London
Martin Fotta
Affiliation:
Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
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Summary

Exploring key trajectories of feminist anthropologies of reproduction, this chapter demonstrates how issues surrounding procreation and its prevention have provided the terrain for major insights about cultural and political dynamics since the very beginning of anthropology itself. The notion of stratified reproduction proved pivotal for broadening the ethnographic gaze on reproductive practices to include global processes, inspiring feminist anthropologists to highlight the multiple forms of inequality and the multiplication of inequalities within and across borders. The author focuses on theoretical debates that have both influenced the feminist anthropologies of reproduction and, in turn, been impacted by it – questions of Foucauldian biopolitics. The author begins by outlining Foucault’s notion of biopower, and then explores some of the diverse ways that feminist anthropologists have related to concepts of biopolitics in theorizing the study of reproduction. The third section illuminates anthropologies of abortion that have variously pursued feminist politics, and/or the analytical concerns of biopolitics, at times bringing them together and at others considering them to be discrete agendas. Finally, the chapter explores feminist anthropologies of abortion in state socialist and postsocialist societies, arguing that these political-economic and social contexts offer important directions for understanding reproduction, the state, and biopolitics.

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abortionbiopoliticsethnographyfeminist anthropologyreproductive governancepostsocialism
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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality , pp. 395 - 424
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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