Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

by Michelle Murphy and Michelle Murphy

Book Overview

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means-the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes-developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353369
• ISBN13: 9780822353362
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"