Amy Krau
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 113687 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy Krau |
| NOMBRES | Amy |
| APELLIDO | Krau |
| FIRMA | KRAU A |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7996-7799 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Archaeologies of the Body
This essay considers abortion politics as a struggle over our collective conditions of life and death. It brings the perspectives of feminist acompañantes in Mexico City and Xalapa, Veracruz, to bear on critical questions about forms of life, loss, care, and time. Although abortion is legal during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City and now in eight other states across the country, a powerful and diffuse feminist movement continues…
Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman
By the time Dr. Z called me into the operating room, I had been shadowing different areas of the clinic for months. I'd sat with the secretaries at the front desk, drinking coffee in Styrofoam cups and helping to organize paperwork. I'd been in the ultrasound room with Dra. A, filling in the number of weeks people were pregnant on patient charts. I'd walked around with the social workers, who dictated to patients a list of acceptable reasons for …
Food cravings
The ephemeral politics of feminist accompaniment networks in Mexico City
This article examines the tension in Hannah Arendt's thought between the creativity of political action and the worldlessness of labour in light of fieldwork with feminist activists in Mexico City. Drawing from my ethnographic research, I explore how labour and action are knitted together in the feminist practice of accompanying women who seek safe abortion in the city. Bringing Arendt's thought into dialogue with anthropologies of illness experi…
Racial Inequality and the Dissolution of Kinship
Luisa's Ghosts
Feminist health care providers have debated the efficacy of the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City. Luisa, a counselor in a private clinic, suggested that while the law has expanded the visibility of, and access to safe abortion, it has also called forth "other ghosts." In this article, I take Luisa's critical perspective as a starting point for examining ongoing criminalization and moral stigma as forms of haunting that arise in the wa…
The ephemeral politics of feminist accompaniment networks in Mexico City
This article examines the tension in Hannah Arendt's thought between the creativity of political action and the worldlessness of labour in light of fieldwork with feminist activists in Mexico City. Drawing from my ethnographic research, I explore how labour and action are knitted together in the feminist practice of accompanying women who seek safe abortion in the city. Bringing Arendt's thought into dialogue with anthropologies of illness experi…
Luisa's Ghosts
Feminist health care providers have debated the efficacy of the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City. Luisa, a counselor in a private clinic, suggested that while the law has expanded the visibility of, and access to safe abortion, it has also called forth "other ghosts." In this article, I take Luisa's critical perspective as a starting point for examining ongoing criminalization and moral stigma as forms of haunting that arise in the wa…
Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman
By the time Dr. Z called me into the operating room, I had been shadowing different areas of the clinic for months. I'd sat with the secretaries at the front desk, drinking coffee in Styrofoam cups and helping to organize paperwork. I'd been in the ultrasound room with Dra. A, filling in the number of weeks people were pregnant on patient charts. I'd walked around with the social workers, who dictated to patients a list of acceptable reasons for …
Food cravings
Luisa's Ghosts
Feminist health care providers have debated the efficacy of the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City. Luisa, a counselor in a private clinic, suggested that while the law has expanded the visibility of, and access to safe abortion, it has also called forth "other ghosts." In this article, I take Luisa's critical perspective as a starting point for examining ongoing criminalization and moral stigma as forms of haunting that arise in the wa…
The ephemeral politics of feminist accompaniment networks in Mexico City
This article examines the tension in Hannah Arendt's thought between the creativity of political action and the worldlessness of labour in light of fieldwork with feminist activists in Mexico City. Drawing from my ethnographic research, I explore how labour and action are knitted together in the feminist practice of accompanying women who seek safe abortion in the city. Bringing Arendt's thought into dialogue with anthropologies of illness experi…
Racial Inequality and the Dissolution of Kinship
Food cravings
Archaeologies of the Body
This essay considers abortion politics as a struggle over our collective conditions of life and death. It brings the perspectives of feminist acompañantes in Mexico City and Xalapa, Veracruz, to bear on critical questions about forms of life, loss, care, and time. Although abortion is legal during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City and now in eight other states across the country, a powerful and diffuse feminist movement continues…
Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman
By the time Dr. Z called me into the operating room, I had been shadowing different areas of the clinic for months. I'd sat with the secretaries at the front desk, drinking coffee in Styrofoam cups and helping to organize paperwork. I'd been in the ultrasound room with Dra. A, filling in the number of weeks people were pregnant on patient charts. I'd walked around with the social workers, who dictated to patients a list of acceptable reasons for …
Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Abortion (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 obras) · Ethnography (2 obras)