Short description:

This edited collection provides an in-depth approach to issues of reproductive autonomy and reproductive justice from a range of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. It will provide an essential resource to those studying these topics as well as practitioners.

Long description:

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. 

This collection provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the current issues surrounding gender and procreation. Topics addressed within these chapters include feminist history and reproductive rights, reproductive care, midwifery, obstetric violence, trans pregnancy, abortion, IVF, LGBTQ inclusive maternity care, obstetric racism, gender, and parenting from a diverse range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, and midwifery.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an urgent and necessary overview of research in these areas, and is an essential resource for those studying these topics as well as practitioners.

Table of Contents:

Introduction  Part I: Constructing Kinship: Experiences of Gendered Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting  1. Haunted Frames: Feminist Stories of Procreative Labour  2. Maternal Ambivalence and the Gender of Mothers  3. Difference as a Feminist Antidote to the Pathologization and Commodification of Breastfeeding  4. Okâwîmâwaskiy: Learning From ?The Mother of the Land?  5. Queer Kinship and Technologies: Challenges and Queer Erasures  6. The (Non-)Marital Bargain  7. Adoption and Gender in the United States  8. Cisgender Men?s Narratives on Expected and Actual Reactions to their Desires to be Pregnant and/or Gestational Parents: Cisheteropatriarchy, Repronormativity, and the Normative Gendering of Pregnancy  9. Male Mothers, Female Fathers  Part II: Reproductive Injustices: Obstetric Racism, Criminalization, and Reproductive Violence  10. Obstetric Violence, A Latin American Concept  11. An Introduction to the Framework of ?Obstetric Racism?: Theory and Intellectual Lineage  12. Obstetric Violence in Global North: The Netherlands, the United States, and Beyond  13. ?Be and it is!?: Muslim Cosmologies of Care, Desire, and the Reproduction of Life  14. Accountability for Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism: New Pathways for Families Seeking Justice  15. The Case for Birth Equity in the United States  16. Beyond Barriers: Infertility as a Reproductive Justice Issue Among Marginalised Communities  17. Coloniality of Science in the Most Beautiful Indian Contest: Eugenics, Gender, and Race in Postrevolutionary Mexico  18. Abortion through the Lens of Reproductive Justice  19. Whose Ethos?: A Case of Indian Surrogacy Law and its Moral Bedrock  Part III: Reproductive Care: Midwifery, Reproductive Technologies, and Gender  20. Difference and Resistance: Radical Engagement in Challenging the Structures of Maternity Services   21. Black Women?s Social Egg Freezing Experiences: A Reproductive Justice Vision  22. The Paradigm Shifts Made by Deeply Humanistic and Holistic Obstetricians: Ideological Transformations, Benefits, Ostracisms, and Persecutions  23. Trans/Parent Pregnancy: (In)visibility of Gender Diversity in Reproductive Health Care  24. Decoupling Gender from ?Midwifery?: A Utopian Vision  25. Are Women Changing Birth Settings for a Positive Birthing Experience in India? A Critical Analysis Using Arts-Based Research  26. Maternal Ontologies, Birth-Work and the Race Question in Assisted Reproductive Technology: Towards a Philosophical Framework Rooted in Transnational Feminism  27. Markets in Babies   28. The Medico-Legal Authorization of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination: Comparing Frameworks and Practices in Denmark and Austria  29. Reinventing Midwifery: Epistemic Syncretism and Midwife-Doula Boundaries in Portuguese Home Births