'A stunning collection that shifts the anthropology of reproduction onto the terrain of power, where it belongs. I will use these essays in teaching and research, but most of all in striving to inhabit the New World Order as a post-natal, born-again feminist.'-Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz The feminist vision here is large, theoretically incisive, detailed, empirically deep, and politically inspiring.

' Conceiving the New World Order promises to explore the consequences of making reproduction central to social theory in general, and it delivers on its promise abundantly. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planning. The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the aftereffects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Norway and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe.

This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction.

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