Gender, body, biomedicine: How some feminist concerns dragged reproduction to the center of social theory

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 466-477

  Rapp, Rayna ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminism; Genetics; Stigma; Stratified reproduction

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; ART; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACHONDROPLASIA; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035749154     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2001.15.4.466     Document Type: Article

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