Reproductive disruptions : gender, technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn.

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction: Defining women's health: a dozen messages from more than 150 ethnographies / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The dialectics of disruption: paradoxes of nature and professionalism in contemporary American childbearing / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel F. Scherrer -- Designing a woman-centered health care approach to pregnancy loss: lessons from feminist models of childbirth / Linda Layne -- Enlarging reproduction, screening disability / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Openness in adoption: re-thinking "family" in the US / Harold D. Grotevant -- Can gender "equity" in prenatal genetic services unintentionally reinforce male authority? / C.H. Browner -- When the personal is political: contested reproductive strategies among West African migrants in France / Carolyn Sargent -- Reproductive disruptions and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim world / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The final disruption? biopolitics of post-reproductive life / Margaret Lock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.