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Uniform Title Fertile ground (2014)
Title Fertile ground : exploring reproduction in Canada / edited by Stephanie Paterson, Francesca Scala, and Marlene K. Sokolon
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 394 pages)
Contents Exploring how women think about and make their reproductive choices : a generational approach / Diana L. Gustafson and Marilyn Porter -- IVF policy and the stratification of reproduction in Canada / Francesca Scala -- Stratified reproduction : making the case for butch lesbians', transmen's, and genderqueer individuals' experiences in British Columbia / Michelle Walks -- Reproducing inequality and identity : an intersectional analysis of maternal health preferences / Candace Johnson -- Quebec's constitutional challenge to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act : overlooking women's reproductive autonomy? / Vaness Gruben and Angela Cameron -- On reproductive citizenship : thinking about social rights and assisted reproduction in Canada / Alana Cattapan -- Deinstitutionalizing pregnancy and birth : alternative childbirth and the new scalar politics of reproduction / Stephanie Paterson -- With breast intentions : breastfeeding policy in Canada / Marlene K. Sokolon -- Doctor knows best : the illusion of reproductive freedom in Canada / Julia Thomson-Philbrook -- Girld power and the pill : unpacking web-based marketing for Alesse and Yasmin / Lisa Smith -- Promoting breastfeeding, solving social problems : exploring state involvement in breastfeeding / Tasnin Nathoo and Aleck Ostrey -- Care of the self : an alternative way to understand breastfeeding / Robyn Lee -- Indigenous body as contaminated site? : examining struggles for reproductive justive in Aamjiwnaang / Sarah Marie Wiebe and Erin Marie Konsmo
Summary "Ideas of choice and rights traditionally dominate discussions concerning reproduction and gender politics. Fertile Ground argues that the current political climate in Canada necessitates a broader understanding of the links between the politics of reproduction, the state, and gender relations
Three major themes are developed in the book: women's lived experiences, the role of the state in reproductive politics, and discourses around reproduction. Contributors examine unequal access to in vitro fertilization treatments depending upon class, race, age, disability, and health status; critique Health Canada's adherence to a medical model of breastfeeding; analyze marketing campaigns for birth-control products; and recount the Aamjiwnaang First Nation's experience of seeking recognition for reproductive health concerns. Fertile Ground links reproduction to marginalization, contestation, and the state in order to illuminate the continuity of reproductive moments and their implications for identity, activism, policy formation, and further scholarship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- Canada
Human reproduction -- Social aspects -- Canada
Fertility, Human -- Political aspects -- Canada
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Canada
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Canada
Women's rights -- Canada
Feminism -- Canada
Reproductive rights.
Reproductive technology.
Childfree choice.
Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Techniques
Public Policy
Reproductive Behavior
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Reproductive technology
Reproductive rights
Childfree choice
Feminism
Fertility, Human -- Political aspects
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
Human reproduction -- Political aspects
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
Women -- Health and hygiene
Women's rights
SUBJECT Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
Subject Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Paterson, Stephanie, 1972- editor, author.
Scala, Francesca, editor, author
Sokolon, Marlene K., editor, author
LC no. 2016364881
ISBN 9780773543683
0773543686