ISBN:
9781478003281
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (296 pages)
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4 illustrations
DDC:
306.3/620973
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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African American women Social conditions
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History
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Human reproduction Political aspects
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Slavery
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Slavery History
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Surrogate motherhood History
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Womanism
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Women slaves
Abstract:
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive body, biocapitalism is dependent upon what Weinbaum calls the slave episteme-the racial logic that drove four centuries of slave breeding in the Americas and Caribbean. Weinbaum outlines how the slave episteme shapes the practice of reproduction today, especially through use of biotechnology and surrogacy. Engaging with a broad set of texts, from Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia Butler's dystopian speculative fiction to black Marxism, histories of slavery, and legal cases involving surrogacy, Weinbaum shows how black feminist contributions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s constitute a powerful philosophy of history-one that provides the means through which to understand how reproductive slavery haunts the present
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478003281
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003281?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478003281
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