Elyse Ona Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 630854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elyse Ona Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elyse Ona |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER E O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Time to Die
Enduring contests between church, state, and individual control over the body in Mexico have recently manifested in a contentious "life debate" over the definition and ethics of "dignified death" (Roberts in God's laboratory: assisted reproduction in the Andes. University of California Press, 2012). In 2008, Mexico City passed the Advance Directive Law, authorizing the right to refuse or withdraw life-sustaining treatment and affording palliative…
Merrill Singer (1950-2025)
Time Is Breaking "after" Roe
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision
This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision inDobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council fo…
Abortion exile
This paper develops the concept of 'abortion exile' to understand the situation of women who are forced to travel for abortion services because the procedure is outlawed, stigmatized, unaffordable or otherwise inaccessible in their place of residence. A number of legislative, economic, and moral mechanisms conspire to deny women abortion rights at home such that they must journey within and across national borders in pursuit of needed abortion ca…
Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective
International audience
Realizing Abortion Rights at the Margins of Legality in Mexico
I analyze the alternative tactics and logics of Las Fuertes, a feminist organization that has taken an "alegal" approach to realizing the human right to abortion in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato. Since a series of United Nations agreements throughout the 1990s enshrined reproductive rights as universal human rights, Mexican feminists have adopted the human rights platform as a lobbying tool to pressure the government to reform rest…
Lawful Sinners
From Reproductive Rights to Responsibilization
Building on medical anthropology literature that analyzes doctor-patient interactions as a charged site for the production of political subjectivities, I demonstrate how a central feature of Mexico City's new public sector abortion program involves "responsibilization." In accordance with entrenched Ministry of Health objectives, providers transmit a suite of values about personal responsibility and self-regulation through the use of birth contro…
From Reproductive Rights to Responsibilization
Building on medical anthropology literature that analyzes doctor-patient interactions as a charged site for the production of political subjectivities, I demonstrate how a central feature of Mexico City's new public sector abortion program involves "responsibilization." In accordance with entrenched Ministry of Health objectives, providers transmit a suite of values about personal responsibility and self-regulation through the use of birth contro…
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision
This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision inDobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council fo…
Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective
International audience
Realizing Abortion Rights at the Margins of Legality in Mexico
I analyze the alternative tactics and logics of Las Fuertes, a feminist organization that has taken an "alegal" approach to realizing the human right to abortion in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato. Since a series of United Nations agreements throughout the 1990s enshrined reproductive rights as universal human rights, Mexican feminists have adopted the human rights platform as a lobbying tool to pressure the government to reform rest…
Lawful Sinners
From Reproductive Rights to Responsibilization
Building on medical anthropology literature that analyzes doctor-patient interactions as a charged site for the production of political subjectivities, I demonstrate how a central feature of Mexico City's new public sector abortion program involves "responsibilization." In accordance with entrenched Ministry of Health objectives, providers transmit a suite of values about personal responsibility and self-regulation through the use of birth contro…
Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective
International audience
Realizing Abortion Rights at the Margins of Legality in Mexico
I analyze the alternative tactics and logics of Las Fuertes, a feminist organization that has taken an "alegal" approach to realizing the human right to abortion in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato. Since a series of United Nations agreements throughout the 1990s enshrined reproductive rights as universal human rights, Mexican feminists have adopted the human rights platform as a lobbying tool to pressure the government to reform rest…
Abortion exile
This paper develops the concept of 'abortion exile' to understand the situation of women who are forced to travel for abortion services because the procedure is outlawed, stigmatized, unaffordable or otherwise inaccessible in their place of residence. A number of legislative, economic, and moral mechanisms conspire to deny women abortion rights at home such that they must journey within and across national borders in pursuit of needed abortion ca…
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision
This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision inDobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council fo…
Time Is Breaking "after" Roe
A Time to Die
Enduring contests between church, state, and individual control over the body in Mexico have recently manifested in a contentious "life debate" over the definition and ethics of "dignified death" (Roberts in God's laboratory: assisted reproduction in the Andes. University of California Press, 2012). In 2008, Mexico City passed the Advance Directive Law, authorizing the right to refuse or withdraw life-sustaining treatment and affording palliative…
Merrill Singer (1950-2025)
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Abortion (5 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (4 works) · Reproductive rights (4 works) · Human rights (3 works)