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Issue 11.3 | Summer 2013 — Life (Un)Ltd: Feminism, Bioscience, Race

Recommended Reading

Aizura, Aren Z. “The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics.” The Transgender Studies Reader 2. Eds. Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Arditti, Rita. Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Bridges, Khiara. Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Briggs, Laura. Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

Candelario, Rosemary. “Abortion Politics and Performance” (PDF). CSW Update March 2012. UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

Cooper, Melinda and Catherine Waldby. Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Doyle, Jennifer. “Blind Spots and Failed Performance: Abortion, Feminism, and Queer Theory.” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 18:1, 32. 2009.

Espino, Virginia. “Women Sterilized as They Give Birth: Forced Sterilization and the Chicana Resistance in the 1970s.” Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family. Eds Vicki Ruiz and Chon Noriega. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Resource Center Publications, 2000. pp. 65-82.

Haraway, Donna. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Hird, Myrna. “Digesting Difference: Metabolism and the Question of Sexual Difference.” Configurations 20.3 (Fall 2012): 2013-237.

Ho, Josephine. “Embodying Gender: Transgender Body/Subject Formations in Taiwan.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 7.2 (2006).

Hsu, Stephanie. “Ethnicity and the Biopolitics of Intersex in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex.” MELUS 36.2 (Jan 2011): 87-110.

Kempadoo, Kamala and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Landecker, Hannah. “Food as Exposure: Nutritional Epigenetics and the New Metabolism.” BioSocieties 6 (2011): 167-194.

Lee, Rachel. “Notes from the (non)Field: Theorizing and Teaching ‘Women of Color.’” Meridians 1.1 (Fall 2000): 85-109. Rpt. in Women’s Studies on Its Own, ed. Robyn Wiegman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. pp. 82-105.

Margulis, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

McHugh, Kathleen. American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Morton, Timothy. “Queer Ecology.” PMLA 125.2 (2010): 273-282.

Murphy, Michelle. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

Nelson, Alondra. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Nelson, Diane. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

Onaga, Lisa. “More than Metamorphosis: The Silkworm Experiments of Toyama Kametaro and his Cultivation of Genetic Thought in Japan’s Sericultural Practices, 1894-1918.” In Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland, eds., Life Sciences, Agriculture and the Environment: New Perspectives. Springer, expected publication date 2014.

Onaga, Lisa. “Toyama Kametaro and Vernon Kellogg: Silkworm Inheritance Experiments in Japan, Siam, and the United States,1900-1912.” Journal of the History of Biology 43(2) (2010): 215-264.

Roberts, Dorothy. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century. New York: The New Press, 2011.

Sagara, M. Rosalind. “Political Filmmaking: Talking with Renee Tajima-Peña.” Women’s Studies Quarterly. Vol. 30, No. 1/2, (Spring-Summer, 2002): 178-188.

Saguy, Abigail. What’s Wrong with Fat. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Smith, Lindsay. “Genetics as a tool for Social Justice” in Genetics, Behavior, and Society. Ed. G. Cabana. Elsiever, forthcoming.

Squier, Susan Merrill. Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011.

Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Stormer, Nathan. “Looking in Wonder: Prenatal Sublimity and the Commonplace Life.” Signs 33(3), 2008: 649.

Troyano, Alina. I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures. New York: Beacon Press, 2000.

Ward, Anna and Abigail Saguy. “Coming Out as Fat: Rethinking Stigma.” Social Psychology Quarterly 74.1 (March 2011): 53-75.

Wailoo, Keith, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee, eds. Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

Weil, Kari. Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Zhan, Mei. “Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers, and David Beckham’s Pajamas: Unruly Bodies after SARS,” American Anthropologist, 107:1, 2005: 31-42.

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