Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making (Gender and Sexualities in Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Craven, Christa

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Although there are far more opportunities for LGBTQ people to become parents than there were before the 1990s, attention to the reproductive challenges LGBTQ families face has not kept pace. Reproductive Lossesconsiders LGBTQ people's experiences with miscarriage, stillbirth, failed adoptions, infertility, and sterility. Drawing on Craven's training as a feminist anthropologist and her experiences as a queer parent who has experienced loss, Reproductive Lossesincludes detailed stories drawn from over fifty interviews with LGBTQ people (including those who carried pregnancies, non-gestational and adoptive parents, and families from a broad range of racial/ethnic, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds) to consider how they experience loss, grief, and mourning. The book includes productive suggestions and personal narratives of resiliency, commemorative strategies, and communal support, while also acknowledging the adversity many LGBTQ people face as they attempt to form families and the heteronormativity of support resources for those who have experienced reproductive loss. This is essential reading for scholars and professionals interested in LGBTQ health and family, and for individuals in LGBTQ communities who have experienced loss and those who support them. See additional material on the Companion Website: www.lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/ adversity many LGBTQ people face as they attempt to form families and the heteronormativity of support resources for those who have experienced reproductive loss. This is essential reading for scholars and professionals interested in LGBTQ health and family, and for individuals in LGBTQ communities who have experienced loss and those who support them. See additional material on the Companion Website: www.lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/

"Pushing for Midwives is a fascinating, richly analytical ethnography. Craven shows how class, especially, continues to create profoundly different orientations to reproductive politics, `respectability,' consumerism, consumers' rights, activism, and power. Pushing for Midwives provides a wonderful array of voices to help us consider the challenges of organizing for adequate reproductive health care today."---Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power and Beggars and Choosers "This excellent book accomplishes Craven's dual goals of writing a history of women's reproductive rights activism and describing contemporary `consumer rights' strategies within the politics of the natural childbirth movement, which has failed to appropriately address race and class disparities. A must-read for anyone wanting to understand how to advocate more effectively for all women and the midwives women need to fully achieve their reproductive rights!"---Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ph.D., author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and co-editor of Mainstreaming Midwives "Pushing for Midwives shows how the resurgence of home birth is a local story crosscut by broader forces of race, class, and professional power. With impressive command of related scholarship and keen attention to the hazards and possibilities of living---and birthing---as `consumers' under the conditions of neoliberal capitalism, Craven writes with a clarity that will appeal to a wide diversity of readers."---Pamela E. Klassen, University of Toronto, author of Blessed Events and Pathologies of Modernity "In her beautifully rendered study of midwifery in Virginia, Craven shows how the rhetoric of `consumer choice'---a shibboleth of those promoting reproductive rights for women---excludes large segments of the childbearing population. In the best tradition of anthropology, she unpacks an irony, illustrating how our social and economic environment can simultaneously celebrate and constrain women's choices. Great stuff."---Raymond De Vries, Professor, Bioethics/Sociology/Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, and author of A Pleasing Birth

Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement

Women's Health

Temple University Press

Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary text that employs a problem-based approach to guide readers through the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven tease out the influences of feminist ethnography across a variety of disciplines including women's and gender studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, education, communications, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and American studies. Feature elements of the text include Essentials (excerpts from key texts in the field), Spotlights (interviews with feminist ethnographers), and suggested assignments and readings. The text concludes with a "conversation" among contemporary feminist ethnographers about what feminist ethnography looks like today and into the future.

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities (Dutch Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, Dána-Ain

Anthropology

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural introduction to the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven use a problem-based approach—focused on inquiry and investigation—to present a feminist framework for thinking critically about how we document everyday experiences. 
The book begins with an introduction to feminist perspectives, their meanings over time, and a brief history of feminist ethnography. Then the authors examine feminist methodologies, answering the question, how does one do feminist ethnography, and investigates common challenges such as ethical dilemmas and logistical constraints faced during fieldwork. Finally, Davis and Craven discuss what it means to be a feminist activist ethnographer, including advocacy efforts and engagement with public policy, and ask students to consider: what is your vision for the future of feminist ethnography? 
New to this Edition: Six new interviews with feminist ethnographers include reflections on the intersections of trans studies, disability studies, and the Cite Black Women movement New section on safety, accessibility, and fieldwork to address the risks all ethnographers face, but in particular those who challenge long-held assumptions that ethnographers are (all) white, Western, able-bodied, well-funded, cisgender, and usually male Enhanced discussion of virtual ethnography in the wake of COVID-19 Added content on transgender/nonbinary experiences and disability studies

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities, Second Edition

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