Barbara Katz Rothman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 192790 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara Katz Rothman |
| NOMBRES | Barbara Katz |
| APELLIDO | Rothman |
| FIRMA | ROTHMAN B K |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of New York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Capitalism, Procreation, and Gender
This article examines the effects of capitalist production on social systems of procreation, drawing from Marxist political and economic theory. It argues that capitalism introduces an increasing degree of alienation into procreation and that capitalism builds the basis for a certain degree of degendering systems of procreation. These trends are considered with regard to Marxist feminism, radical feminism, queer, and trans liberation. Procreative…
Testing Times
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a genomic technology used to predict the chance of a foetus having a genetic condition. Despite the immediacy of this technology’s integration into clinical practice, there is a dearth of evidence outlining how both patients and professionals experience NIPT on the ground. In this article, we draw upon our collective empirical research—specifically on earlier screening technologies (BKR), Down syndrome scre…
African-American Midwifery, a History and a Lament
The medicalization of fertility and infertility, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, childbirth, and postpartum care has not always worked in the interests of women. It has had particularly devastating effects on African-American women. Their fertility has been managed for hundreds of years, first as slaves forced to have children for owners, then as objects to be experimented on without anesthetics, and finally as mothers sterilized without thei…
Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar
Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued
Back to the Breast
Reviewed by: Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America by Jessica Martucci Barbara Katz Rothman Jessica Martucci. Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 292 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-28803-1). Jessica Martucci’s book is a welcome addition to the shelf of books I have on breastfeeding history and practice in America. She points out that while many …
Our Day Jobs
This essay addresses the changing face of the university. It is based on my presidential address at the 2016 meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society
Ilusões de escolha
Os testes pré-natais para anomalia fetal fazem o que a medicalização frequentemente pratica: individualiza os problemas sociais, e coloca a responsabilidade de gerenciá-los sobre os ombros de mulheres individuais. Quando o diagnóstico revela que a criança nascerá com algum tipo de deficiência, recai sobre a mulher a responsabilidade da "escolha": interromper a gestação ou arcar com as responsabilidade de ter uma criança que não terá nenhum tipo d…
How We Die Now
Getting Sociology Right
Pregnancy, birth and risk
In this introduction, I use my nearly 40 years of work in the area to reflect on the total medicalisation of pregnancy and childbirth that informs even the critical sociology that purports to examine the issue. The risks that are faced in pregnancy and birth are not only the inherent dangers that midwives have worked with across time and space but also those particular risks introduced by medicalisation itself. Medicalisation blinds us to those r…
Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Theorizing the Field
Gender and Genetics
Hannah Arendt
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist
Birthing a Mother
Teman, E . Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and The Pregnant Self . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . ISBN : 978-0-520-25964-5 The dystopia some of us feared when we first heard about surrogacy has arrived: bellies are medically maintained environments for the growth of tested, selected and monitored fetal patients. Doctors put babies in and take them out. Babies are genes grown up. And Elly Teman tells us this dystopia is I…
On Markens 1
Mothering Alone
Mothering Alone:Rethinking Single Motherhood in America Barbara Katz Rothman (bio) Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas's Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005 Rosanna Hertz's Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 Ruth Sidel's Unsung Her…
Writing Ourselves in Sociology
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Born and Made
Feminism confronts the genome
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Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Baby's First Picture
A Review of
In their preface to this wonderful volume, the editors tell us of their frustration with the way that gender has been largely left out of so much of Food Studies, and the way that food has been lef...
Women, biomedical research and art
Women, biomedical research and art: A relationality in tension by ninette rothmüller." Educational Philosophy and Theory, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist
Of Maps and Imaginations
Problems on the Human Genome Project — this attempt to map all the genes and the new genetic determinist thinking that has been accompanying it — because it has important im-plications for us as social scientists and social philosophers. I want us to be able to place specific critiques of the Human Genome Project in a larger context, and therefore my discus-sion is about how I see sociology and the social world; about how that vision is shaped by…
African-American Midwifery, a History and a Lament
The medicalization of fertility and infertility, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, childbirth, and postpartum care has not always worked in the interests of women. It has had particularly devastating effects on African-American women. Their fertility has been managed for hundreds of years, first as slaves forced to have children for owners, then as objects to be experimented on without anesthetics, and finally as mothers sterilized without thei…
Reflections
Midwives in Transition
This paper examines the influence of settings of practice on the construction and reconstruction of medical knowledge, specifically the development and uses of timetables for labor and birth. I reviewed the medical literature and interviewed 12 hospital-trained nurse-midwives who had begun to do home births. I argue that the medically managed hospital setting structures the birth process in social and ideological terms that are in many cases unre…
Women as Fathers
Although the modern American kinship system is nominally a bilateral system, the very definition of kin ties is based on the principles of patriarchy. Women do not gain their rights to their children in this society as mothers, but as father-equivalents, sources of genetic material. In child rearing as in childbearing, women may take on the role of fathers to their children, substituting poorer women to do the traditional mothering work. The resu…
Reproductive Futures
Born and Made
II. Bearing Witness
Childbirth As Negotiated Reality
This paper will describe birth as a social as well as a physiological event, a process which is socially constructed and socially defined. The ways in which the medical establishment controls the birth experience, creating it as a medical event, will be presented. The role of childbirth education is presented here as supporting the medical model and preparing the pregnant woman and her mate for their roles in the institutional birth. We will brie…
Writing Ourselves in Sociology
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Uncovering Oppressions
Journal Article Uncovering Oppressions: One Woman's Tribute to the SSSP Get access Barbara Katz Rothman Barbara Katz Rothman CUNY Direct correspondence to: Barbara Katz Rothman, CUNY Baruch College, 17 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10010-5526. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 48, Issue 1, 1 February 2001, Pages 63–64, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2001.48…
Capitalism, Procreation, and Gender
This article examines the effects of capitalist production on social systems of procreation, drawing from Marxist political and economic theory. It argues that capitalism introduces an increasing degree of alienation into procreation and that capitalism builds the basis for a certain degree of degendering systems of procreation. These trends are considered with regard to Marxist feminism, radical feminism, queer, and trans liberation. Procreative…
Ilusões de escolha
Os testes pré-natais para anomalia fetal fazem o que a medicalização frequentemente pratica: individualiza os problemas sociais, e coloca a responsabilidade de gerenciá-los sobre os ombros de mulheres individuais. Quando o diagnóstico revela que a criança nascerá com algum tipo de deficiência, recai sobre a mulher a responsabilidade da "escolha": interromper a gestação ou arcar com as responsabilidade de ter uma criança que não terá nenhum tipo d…
Getting Sociology Right
Gender and Genetics
Birthing a Mother
Teman, E . Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and The Pregnant Self . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . ISBN : 978-0-520-25964-5 The dystopia some of us feared when we first heard about surrogacy has arrived: bellies are medically maintained environments for the growth of tested, selected and monitored fetal patients. Doctors put babies in and take them out. Babies are genes grown up. And Elly Teman tells us this dystopia is I…
On Markens 1
From the SWS President
Cheap labor
In Labor
Midwives and Medical Men
The Family Bed
Childbirth As Negotiated Reality
This paper will describe birth as a social as well as a physiological event, a process which is socially constructed and socially defined. The ways in which the medical establishment controls the birth experience, creating it as a medical event, will be presented. The role of childbirth education is presented here as supporting the medical model and preparing the pregnant woman and her mate for their roles in the institutional birth. We will brie…
Infants, Mothers, and Doctors
Women and Men Midwives
Birth Control and Controlling Birth
In Labor
Midwives in Transition
This paper examines the influence of settings of practice on the construction and reconstruction of medical knowledge, specifically the development and uses of timetables for labor and birth. I reviewed the medical literature and interviewed 12 hospital-trained nurse-midwives who had begun to do home births. I argue that the medically managed hospital setting structures the birth process in social and ideological terms that are in many cases unre…
Giving Birth
Case Studies
Reflections
Comment on Harrison
The Abortion Problem as Doctors See It
Book reviewed in this article: Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine. By Jonathan B. Imber
Only Mothers Know
Only Mothers Know is a very good, indeed a consummate, summary of research, discussion, and controversy, and it is also a very levelheaded as well as compassionate appeal to common sense, to valid cultural experience, and to the realism of Third World modernization. Raphael's project has come a long way from the passionate concern of the early days of the rediscovery of breastfeeding and of female wisdom. Such concern still guides her, of course …
The Politics and Practice of Abortion
The Abortion Question
Reproductive Futures
Cheap labor
Reproduction, Medicine and the Socialist State. Alena Heitlinger
Women as Fathers
Although the modern American kinship system is nominally a bilateral system, the very definition of kin ties is based on the principles of patriarchy. Women do not gain their rights to their children in this society as mothers, but as father-equivalents, sources of genetic material. In child rearing as in childbearing, women may take on the role of fathers to their children, substituting poorer women to do the traditional mothering work. The resu…
Response
Considering the Other Edge of Life
Book reviewed in this article: Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in Patriarchal Society. By Barbara Katz Rothman. Surrogate Motherhood: The Legal and Human Issues. By Martha A. Field
Recreating Motherhood
Feminist Mothers
Not All That Glitters Is Gold
Embryo diagnosis also has costs in life and in liberty -- that of the women on whose bodies these experiments are done. While the proven deaths to date from IVF-related treatments are quite small, the long-term risks are not yet in. And the costs of pain, illness, and physical and emotional suffering from these procedures go largely unremarked....IVF and embryo retrieval procedures do not take place on a couple's body -- it is a woman on the tabl…
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