1st Edition

Reproducing Citizens: family, state and civil society

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and... Read more

1. Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: editorial introduction  Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova

2. Women’s interpretations of the right to legal abortion in Mexico City: ctizenship, experience and clientelism  Ana Amuchástegui and Edith Flores

3. Transgendering Mother’s Day: blogging as citizens’ media, reproductive rights and intimate citizenship  Jenny Gunnarsson Payne

4. Rights, bioconstitutionalism and the politics of reproductive citizenship in Italy  Patrick Hanafin

5. Representations of reproductive citizenship and vulnerability in media reports of offshore surrogacy  Damien W. Riggs and Clemence Due

6. Kurdish migrant mothers in London enacting citizenship  Umut Erel

7. Citizenship across generations: struggles around heteronormativities  Chiara Bertone

Biography

Sasha Roseneil is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Isabel Crowhurst is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Ana Cristina Santos is Senior Researcher in Sociology in the Centro de Estudos Sociais Laboratório Associado, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Mariya Stoilova is a Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.