Pragmatic Women and Body Politics

Introduction Margaret Lock and Patricia Kaufert 1. Remembering Amal: reflections on birth and the British in Northern Sudan Janice Boddy 2. Resistance and embrace: Sudanese rural women and systems of power Ellen Gruenbaum 3. Not only women: science as resistance in open door Egypt Soheir A. Morsy 4. Inscribing the body politic: women and AIDS in Africa Brooke Grundfest Schoepf 5. Barren ground: contesting identities of infertile women in Pemba, Tanzania Karina Kielmann 6. Wives, mothers, and lesbians: rethinking resistance in the US Ellen Lewin 7. The consequences of modernity for childless women in China: medicalization and resistance Lisa Handwerker 8. Perfecting society: reproductive technologies, genetic testing and the planned family in Japan Margaret Lock 9. An ethnography of the medicalization of Puerto Rican women's reproduction Iris Lopez 10. Situating resistance in fields of resistance: Aboriginal women and environmentalism John D. O'Neil, Brenda D. Elias and Annalee Yassi 11. Women, resistance and the breast cancer movement Patricia Kaufert 12. Selective compliance with biomedical authority and the uses of experiential knowledge Emily K. Abel and C. H. Browner 13. The mission within the madness: self-initiated medicalization as expression of agency Mark Nichter References.