The book provides a critical, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge dialogue around the interconnected issues that shape reproductive politics in an ostensibly 'post-population control' era. To empirically and historically ground the analysis, the book includes contributions from two postcolonial nations, South Africa and India, examining interactions between the history of colonialism and the economics of neoliberal markets and their influence on the technologies and politics of selective reproduction.

All population control policies target and vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance Birth controlled argues that assisted reproductive technologies and repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden of blame and responsibility based on gender, race, class and caste. Although new technologies like those that assist conception or allow genetic selection may appear to be an antithesis of other violent versions of population control, this book demonstrates that both are part of the same continuum. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate what evolves is the preferred mode of control. TIME: 10am Berkeley | Calculate Your Local Timeīirth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction - the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future - through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of 'controlling' birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. UCB30, for 30% off the book if ordered on MUP website UCB event discount code for purchasing Birth controlled:

The Center on Contemporary India invites you to a panel discussion on Birth controlled: Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India, a new book edited by Amrita Pande, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.

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