TEN Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic Europe: A Sicilian Case Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE XI
4. ONE Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order 1
5. PART ONE The Politics of Birth/Control
6. TWO A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of the State in Post-Mao China 19
7. THREE Modern Bodies, Modern Minds: Midwifery and Reproductive Change in an African American Community 42
8. FOUR Irniktakpunga! Sex Determination and the Inuit Struggle for Birthing Rights in Northern Canada 59
9. PART TWO Stratified Reproduction
10. FIVE "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York 75
11. SIX On the Outside Looking In: The Politics of Lesbian Motherhood 103
12. SEVEN Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender 122
13. EIGHT Early Childbearing: What Is the Problem and Who Owns It? 140
14. PART THREE Rethinking Demography, Biology, and Social Policy
15. NINE Deadly Reproduction among Egyptian Women: Maternal Mortality and the Medicalization of Population Control 159
16. TEN Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic Europe: A Sicilian Case Study 177
17. ELEVEN Women's Reproductive Practices and Biomedicine: Cultural Conflicts and Transformations in Nigeria 195
18. PART FOUR Disastrous Circumstances and Reproductive Consequences
19. TWELVE National Honor and Practical Kinship: Unwanted Women and Children 209
20. THIRTEEN Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania 234
21. FOURTEEN From Reproduction to HIV: Blurring Categories, Shifting Positions 256
22. FIFTEEN Physical and Cultural Reproduction in a Post-Chernobyl Norwegian Sami Community 270
23. PART FIVE What's So New about the New Reproductive Technologies?
24. SIXTEEN Public Servants, Professionals, and Feminists: The Politics of Contraceptive Research in Brazil 289
25. SEVENTEEN The Normalization of Prenatal Diagnostic Screening 307
26. EIGHTEEN Postmodern Procreation: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction 323
27. NINETEEN Displacing Knowledge: Technology and the Consequences for Kinship 346
28. PART SIX What's Political about Reproduction?
29. TWENTY Interrogating the Concept of Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century 365
30. TWENTY-ONE The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-vision 387
31. TWENTY-TWO Reassessing Reproduction in Social Theory 407
32. TWENTY-THREE Misreading Darwin on Reproduction: Reductionism in Evolutionary Theory 425
33. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 445