The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction

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1 Haunted Frames: Feminist Stories of Procreative Labour
Rachelle J. Chadwick

2 Maternal Ambivalence and the Gender of Mothers
Sarah LaChance Adams

3 Difference as a Feminist Antidote to the Pathologization and Commodification of Breastfeeding 
Kristin J. Wilson

4 Okâwîmâwaskiy: Learning From ‘The Mother of the Land’
Kathy Walker

5 Queer Kinship and Technologies: Challenges and Queer Erasures
Doris Leibetseder

6 The (Non-)Marital Bargain 
Jennifer Hendricks

7 Adoption and Gender in the United States 
Marianne Novy

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
Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso

9 Male Mothers, Female Fathers
Ben Rose Porter

10 Obstetric Violence, A Latin American Concept
Michelle Sadler

11 An Introduction to the Framework of ‘Obstetric Racism’: Theory and Intellectual Lineage
Princess Banda

12 Obstetric Violence in the Global North: The Netherlands, the United States, and Beyond
Rodante van der Waal and Barbara Katz Rothman

13 ‘Be and It Is!’: Muslim Cosmologies of Care, Desire, and the Reproduction of Life
Sarah Munawar

14 Accountability for Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism: New Pathways for Families Seeking Justice
Ashley Albert, P. Mimi Bhatt, Farah Diaz-Tello, Rinat Dray, Courtney L. Everson, Deborah M. Fisch, Dieunette Joseph, Stephanie Kraft Sheley, Jenna Lauter, Indra Lusero, Jenn Mahan, Cassandra Pilla, Robyn M. Powell, Jaid Redmon-Greene, Anna Reed, Caitlin Rain Williams, and Karen A. Scott

15 The Case for Birth Equity in the United States
Martine Hackett

16 Beyond Barriers: Infertility as a Reproductive Justice Issue Among Marginalised Communities
Alexandra Hawkey, Rosalie Power, Rosie Charter and Jane Ussher

17 Coloniality of Science in the Most Beautiful Indian Contest: Eugenics, Gender, and Race in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Rachell Sánchez Rivera

18 Abortion Through the Lens of Reproductive Justice
Naomi Braine

19 Whose Ethos?: A Case of Indian Surrogacy Law and Its Moral Bedrock
Priya Sharma

20 Difference and Resistance: Radical Engagement in Challenging the Structures of Maternity Services 
Jo Murphy-Lawless

21 Black Women’s Social Egg Freezing Experiences: A Reproductive Justice Vision
Isabel Morgan, Keisha Goode and Kelly Davis

22 The Paradigm Shifts Made by Deeply Humanistic and Holistic Obstetricians: Ideological Transformations, Benefits, Ostracisms, and Persecutions
Robbie Davis-Floyd

23 Trans/Parent Pregnancy: (In)visibility of Gender Diversity in Reproductive Health Care
Suki Finn and Caterina Nirta

24 Decoupling Gender from ‘Midwifery’: A Utopian Vision
John Pendleton and Sally Pezaro

25 Are Women Changing Birth Settings for a Positive Birthing Experience in India? A Critical Analysis Using Arts-Based Research
Kaveri Mayra

26 Maternal Ontologies, Birth-Work and the Race Question in Assisted Reproductive Technology: Towards a Philosophical Framework Rooted in Transnational Feminism
Amrita Banerjee

27 Markets in Babies
Sharmila Rudrappa

28 The Medico-Legal Authorization of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination: Comparing Frameworks and Practices in Austria and Denmark
Veronika Siegl and Laura Louise Heinsen

29 Reinventing Midwifery: Epistemic Syncretism and Midwife-Doula Boundaries in Portuguese Home Births
Mário JDS Santos

Biography

Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. She held the 2019 Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and has held visiting professorships and Fulbright awards in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Elizabeth Newnham is Associate Professor of Midwifery at Flinders University and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. Her clinical practice, teaching, and research have focused on seeking social justice solutions for humanizing birth, currently through the development of four research streams: ethics, technology, environment, and practice.

Rodante van der Waal is a PhD candidate in care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht and an independent midwife in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on obstetric violence and reproductive justice from feminist, postcolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. She is a founding member of the Critical Midwifery Studies Collective and the editor of Contractions, a political podcast on midwifery.

Christie Sillo is a sociologist. She holds a PhD in sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York; an MA in sociology from City College; and a BA in American studies from the University of Connecticut. Her doctoral research explored how interracial couples are being digitally constructed and consumed on Instagram