KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - IV CONFERENCIA REPROMOB
Lynn M. Morgan
MOBILIZING REPRODUCTIVE GOVERNANCE IN FEMINIST RESEARCH: A REVIEW
Lynn M. Morgan is a feminist medical anthropologist and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College, USA. She works mainly in Latin America on topics of reproductive governance and fetal politics. She has a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. Her publications include Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos (2009) and Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions (1999) – as well as nearly 50 articles. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities, Social Science Research Council, and the School for Advanced Research. She is currently writing about global anti-abortion movements as they affect reproductive and sexual rights in Latin America.
Language: English
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Claudia Fonseca
SHARING CARE IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD
Claudia Fonseca is a full professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Her research interests include reproductive governance, feminist studies, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of science and technology. In addition to long-term involvement in the field of kinship, gender, adoption and child protection, she has conducted research on leprosy, examining issues of health, care, patient activism, stigma and disability. Her current interests focus on the political, scientific, and moral agendas of parenting practices in contemporary Brazil, and the challenges of related public policies operating within a framework of persistent and radical inequality.
Language: Portuguese
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Marcia C. Inhorn
MOTHERHOOD ON ICE: EGG FREEZING, MATING, AND REPRODUCTIVE IMMOBILITY