tailieunhanh - Ebook Reproductive disruptions - Gender, Technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium: Part 2

Part 2 book “Reproductive disruptions - Gender, Technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium” has contents: Enlarging reproduction, screening disability, openness in adoption - re-thinking “family” in the us, can gender “equity” in prenatal genetic services unintentionally reinforce male authority, reproductive disruptions and assisted reproductive technologies in the muslim world, and other contents. | chapter 3 Enlarging Reproduction Screening Disability Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg Introduction Disrupted reproduction1 now means far more than the use of assisted reproductive technologies ARTs . In the present era in the US and other developed nations the dramatic growth in the use of ARTS should be viewed in light of a much larger and more steadily increasing use of technologies of neonatal salvage as well as less heroic medical interventions that have enabled a much wider range of medically challenged infants to survive. Thus the disruption of reproduction as other chapters in this collection also make clear has much broader temporal and sociocultural consequences than the language of reproduction might suggest. Our goal in this chapter is to look at the social processes by which this expansion occurs. We do so through a general discussion of the increasing visibility and acceptance of disability in both public media and the more intimate domain of kinship. We see this work as an expansion of our prior development of the concept of stratified reproduction a term we use to describe the power relations by which some categories of people are empowered to nurture and reproduce while others are disempowered Ginsburg and Rapp 1995 cf. Colen 1995 115 With more and more premature and medically compromised infants surviving the consequences of disrupted reproduction are Enlarging Reproduction Screening Disability 99 thus felt most intimately and significantly in the lives of their families often far beyond the temporal limits of neonatal intensive care units NICUs at least in Western countries where these technologies have become routinized. In an era when American families are no longer encouraged to institutionalize their non-normative babies or other family members at later life stages it is no longer simply reproduction birth and early infancy that are disrupted. As babies with disabilities grow many assumptions about kinship relations domestic cycles and community