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Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market
A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. The way that children enter families has changed radically among upper middle class families. In the 1980s infertility increasing became defined as a medical problem that could be solved with assisted reproductive technologies (... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)
Through case studies, Outsourcing the Womb, Second Edition provides a critical analysis and global tour of the international surrogacy landscape in Egypt, India, China, Japan, Israel, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States. By providing a comparative analysis of countries that have very d... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)
A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ‘feminism’ and ‘femininity’ negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military women... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Geek Girls: Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley
An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industryWhy is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsui... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy
A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Racing Research, Researching Race
A white woman studies upper-class eighth grade girls at her alma mater on Long Island and finds a culture founded on misinformation about its own racial and class identity. A black American researcher is repeatedly assumed by many Brazilian subjects to be a domestic servant or sex worker. Racing Rac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Geographies of Privilege
How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in Geograph... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism
Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood charts new territory by exploring the notion of motherhood for women of differing classes, races, religions and nations in the light of various strategies and new technologies used to attain motherhood.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies
At a time when historians are reaching for new approaches to understanding the hidden life of working-class European families, this study of family life and work explores some of social history's most pressing questions in a compelling and lucid way. --Leslie Page MochUniversity of Michigan, Flint ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice
A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001