ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hpv Vaccines, American Anthropologist, Family Affairs
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Faye ginsburg: american anthropologist, ethnography of media; indigenous media; social movements in the united states; disability studies, medical anthropology, gender, reproduction, professor a new york university. Rayna rapp: american anthropologists, specializes in gender and health, politics of reproduction, science, technology, and genetics; disability in the united states and europe. Key terms & concepts: reproduction as a source of power and subordination state attempts to discipline the body. Can provide control in areas related to politics and state control over body of what is legal and what isn"t. So there is limits on who that can be empowering for. Ex. laws around what you can do with the placenta during a homebirth: reproduction as work the needs of actual work and reproduction may be too much for women. Interested in how state power has incorporated itself in family affairs: social movements there are movements connected to reproduction, they always have a political context embedded in them.