Seizing the Means of Reproduction Download

Author: Michelle Murphy
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ISBN: 0822353369
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Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (Experimental Futures)

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Download Seizing the Means of Reproduction medical books for free.
Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means-the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes-developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics.Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, d Get Seizing the Means of Reproduction our bestseller medical books.

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Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means-the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes-developed by feminist health activists Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, d

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