The New Reproductive Order
Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe
Marcia C Inhorn editor Sarah Franklin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New York University Press
Publishing:22nd Apr '25
£35.00
This title is due to be published on 22nd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century
Both fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biological, and choice dependent conditions that can be mediated by technology. In contrast, The New Reproductive Order documents the complex material, historical, and political forces that both enable and limit human reproductivity, while also arguing that both fertility and infertility have become condensed symbols of wider changes to family forms, national political agendas, global economies, and local environments.
Combining anthropological, sociological, and intersectional feminist research from across the globe, this landmark volume reveals how changing perceptions of fertility and infertility are altering how people imagine, pursue, and experience reproductivity both individually and collectively. Using a comparative global methodology based on detailed case studies, The New Reproductive Order persuasively argues that changing perceptions of fertility and infertility are giving rise to a distinctive reproductive politics based on new models of reproductive cause and effect. This groundbreaking and sophisticated volume opens new horizons of scholarship on the relationship between fertility, infertility, reproductive technologies, and social change, as well as new thinking on policy, practice, and activism in the twenty-first century’s new reproductive order.
"Compellingly shows how reproductive technology now constitutes an optic for viewing popular culture and governmental policy across the globe. The sixteen national case studies by leading researchers assembled here offer the richest comparative examination of IVF in its global reach to date." -- Rayna Rapp, co-author of Disability Worlds
"Under the energizing direction of Franklin and Inhorn, ongoing social and technological innovations in world-wide approaches to in-fertility are also made manifest in specific trajectories, now mainstream, now divergent. . . . An audacious – and very salutary – project of re-conceptualization, this volume works on the kind of scale that re-draws whole fields." -- Marilyn Strathern, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge
"Could not be more timely or valuable, coming out as crucial elections are turning on questions about IVF and abortion, fertility and infertility, as assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are increasingly available, yet politically contested. And once again, feminist activists are mobilizing over the need to control their reproductive lives. Editors and authors Sarah Franklin and Marcia Inhorn have pulled together an extraordinary group of authors, all using what they call a “reprolens” to help readers understand “repronationalisms” regarding the state of assisted reproductive technologies across the globe. This paradigm-changing collection is required reading for scholars and activists across a range of disciplines, providing the ideas and cases we need to understand the range and complexity of contemporary reproductive imaginaries in the age of ARTs." -- Faye Ginsburg, author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community
ISBN: 9781479832644
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 558g
424 pages