The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction: (Routledge Companions to Gender)

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

About the Author :
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