CAR Newsletter for Fall 2020

In this issue:

  • CAR Announcements
    • CAR Business Meeting Coming Soon!
    • Zoom Book Party Happy Hour!
  • From the C-Chair
  • Member Announcements :
    • Robbie Davis-Floyd would like to remind everyone to add their recent books to the CAR Annotated Bibliography!
    • CAR Graduate Paper Award Winner: Congratulations Heather Wurtz!
  • Member Publications
    • Michal Raucher, Assistant Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, is pleased to announce the publication of her new book, Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (IU Press, 2020).
    • Patricia Zavella has published a new book, The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color Through Social Activism (New York University Press, 2020).
    • Lydia Dixon has published a new book titled, Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020).
    • Adrienne Strong, Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Florida, has published a new book called Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, 2020)
    • Lydia Z. Dixon (2020) Making Women into Protagonists: Midwives Reimagine the Mexican Childbirth Narrative, Medical Anthropology, 39:6, 521-537, DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1714609
    • A special issue “Behind the Measures of Maternal and Reproductive Health: Ethnographic Accounts of Inventory and Intervention” was published in Social Science & Medicine, in June 2020. The issue was edited by Jan Brunson & Siri Suh.
  • COVID-19 and Reproductive Health
    • Several of our CAR members have been working on research related to COVID and reproductive health. You can read more about the research in this section!
  • Notes from the Field
    • Returning from the field: Reflections on Research and Motherhood By Megan Cogburn

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CAR FALL 2018 NEWSLETTER

In this issue:

  • CAR Announcements
  • Member Announcements
  • AAA Panels on Reproductive Health
  • Member Publications
    • Guerra-Reyes, Lucia, and Ruth A. Iguiñiz-Romero. “Performing purity: reproductive decision-making and implications for a community under threat of Zika in Iquitos, Peru.”
    • Kasstan, Ben & Sarah Crook 2018. “Reproductive rebellions in Britain and the Republic of Ireland: Contemporary and past abortion activism and alternative sites of care.”
    • Kasstan, Ben. 2018. Irish voters repealed the eighth: Now it’s time to ensure access to abortion care in law and in practice.”
    • Kasstan, Ben, Meghann Gregg, and Jonathan Kasstan. 2018. Sanitizing public health language: A response to the CDC language controversy. PLOS Public Health Perspectives [blog].
    • Konign, Anika. “Parents on the Move: German Intended Parents’ Experiences with Transnatioanl Surrogacy”
    • M. Medich, D. Mindry, M. Tomlinson, D. Swendeman, “The Forthcoming pull of soccer and the push of Xhosa boys in HIV and drug abuse intervention in the Western Cape, South Africa.”
    • M. Merdich, D. Swendeman, W.S. Comulada, U.H. Kao, J.J. Myers and R.A. Brooks. “Protocol for Promising Approaches for Engaging HIV-positive Youth and Young Adults in HIV Primary Care Using Social Media and Digital Technology Interventions: typologies and evaluation.”
    • Morgan, Lynn M. (2018): “Human Life is Inviolable”: Costa Rica’s Human Rights Crucible.”
    • Morton, Christine and Henley M, Seacrist M and LM Roth. Bearing Witness: U.S. and Canadian Maternity Support Workers’ Observations of Disrespectful Care in Childbirth. Birth.”
    • Suh, S. 2018. “Metrics of survival: Post-abortion care and reproductive rights in Senegal.”
    • Taragin-Zeller, Lea. “Towards an Anthropology of Doubt: The Case of Religious Reproduction in Orthodox Judaism.”
    • Williamson, K. Eliza. 2018. “Care in the Time of Zika: Notes on the ‘Afterlife’ of the Epidemic in Salvador (Bahia), Brazil.”
  • Advanced Graduate Student Mentorship Column
  • Teaching
  • Notes from the Field
    • Adrienne Strong: Reflections on birth companions in Tanzania
    • Julie Johnson Searcy: Notes from the Field: South Africa

And many more! Click here to read!

CAR Newsletter Spring 2018

In this issue:

  • Member Announcements
  • Publication Announcements
    • Suzanne Gottschang: Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital
    • Marcia Inhorn: America’s Arab Refugees
    • Kristen J. Wilson: Others’ Milk: The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding
  • Notes From the Field:
    • Jessica Posega: Trauma, Travel, and Pro-Choice Activism in Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Teaching Column:
     Tsip Ivry: Illuminating Women’s Reproductive Labour in Students’ Stories of ‘How Babies Come into the World
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CAR Newsletter Fall 2017

In this issue:

  • AAA Meeting Guide with list of panels submitted by Members.

 

  • Publication Announcements
    • Lihong Shi, Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China
    • Cecilia Tomori, Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist and EA Quinn: Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches
    • Robbie Davis Floyd: Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism

 

  • Notes from the Field:
    • Mounia El Kotni: Obstetric Violence Hits the Headlines in France
    • Brenna McCaffery: Encounters with Activism and the Abortion Pill in Ireland
    • Fadley Husain: Belian and the Water Medicine

And more!

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