The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History

Author:   Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9781478002840


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 March 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781478002840


ISBN 10:   1478002840
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"""Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars—particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen—who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination."" -- Jennifer C. Nash * Modern Language Quarterly * ""Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well."" -- Gina Marie Longo * Feminist Encounters * ""The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today."" -- Daisy Deomampo * Catalyst *"


Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars-particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen-who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.... Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination. -- Jennifer C. Nash * Modern Language Quarterly * Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well. -- Gina Marie Longo * Feminist Encounters * The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today. -- Daisy Deomampo * Catalyst *


Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars-particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen-who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.... Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination. -- Jennifer C. Nash * Modern Language Quarterly *


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Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.

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