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Stacey Balkan's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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Anna-Maria Hällgren's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Sophie Lewis deposited Gestational Labors: Care Politics and Surrogates’ Struggle on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
In this chapter, Sophie Lewis discusses the burgeoning industry of commercial surrogate gestation, with reference to Baby Gammy. Lewis shows that we are reluctant to countenance unity between the politics of surrogates and other, paid or unpaid, reproducers. Contesting this tendency makes it possible to theorize surrogacy politics as continuous…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited less ‘population’ talk, more kin-making: on Manchester’s B!RTH festival on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Reflections on the B!RTH festival at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre (19th-22nd October 2016).
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Stacey Balkan's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Jacob Goessling's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Sophie Lewis deposited International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAs surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAs surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Sophie Lewis deposited Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
As surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Reproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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The term postdigital has in recent years been applied across a broad range of disciplines, often with contradictory meanings. This article seeks to map the various definitions, deployments and appropriations of the term alongside undertaking a consideration of the underlying issues that the postdigital is argued to gesture towards. These issues,…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Little-Known Documents: George Moses Horton’s ‘Individual Influence’ on MLA Commons 8 years ago
An 1856 essay by George Moses Horton. Survives in manuscript in his own hand. Held in the collections of the NYPL manuscripts and archives division within the papers of Henry Harrisse. Published in PMLA with an introduction by Jonathan Senchyne
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] - Load More
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