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Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1973, M.S. 1969, B.S. with honors, 1968, University of Michigan.
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Research Interests: Gender, reproduction, health and culture, science and technology, United States and Europe.
Selected Works:
ND: "Genetic Citizenship" (with Deborah Heath and Karen Sue Taussig)
ND: Translating Genetics: Crafting Medical Literacy in the Age of the New Genetics" (with Deborah Heath and Karen Sue Taussig)
ND: "Cell Life and Death, Child Life and Death: Genomic Horizons, Genetic Disease, Family Stories" In Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, eds. Animation and Cessation: Toward an Anthropology of Life and Death.
ND: "Flexible Eugenics: Discourses of Perfectibility and Free Choice at the End of the 20th Century". In Alan Goodman, Deborah Heath and Susan Lindee, eds. The Anthropology of the New Genetics (with Deborah Heath and Karen Sue Taussig), University of California Press, forthcoming.
2002 "Genealogical Dis-ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet". In Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds. Relative Matters: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Duke University Press, forthcoming. (with Deborah Heath and Karen Sue Taussig)
2001 "Gender, Body, Biomedicine: How Some Feminist Concerns Dragged Reproduction to the Center of Social Theory". Medical Anthropology Quarterly, forthcoming.
2001 "Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship" Public Culture 13 (with Faye Ginsburg)
2000 "Extra Chromosomes and Blue Tulips: Medico-Familial conversations". in Alberto Cambrosio, Margaret Lock, Allan Young, eds .Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies. Cambridge University Press: 184-208.
1999 Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Routledge.
1999a "Fetal Reflections: Confessions of Two Feminist Anthropologists as Mutual Informants". in Lynn Morgan and Meredith Michaels, eds. Fetal Positions, Feminist Practices. Univ. Pennsylvania Press, pp. 279-95. (with Faye Ginsburg).
1998a "One Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites: How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life" in Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen, eds. Revisioning Women's Health Through Feminism. Routledge.
1998b "Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis: The Multiple Meanings of Biotechnology in a Multicultural World". Science, Technology & Human Values 23 (1):45-70
1998c reprint of 1998b in Robbie Davis-Floyd amd Joseph Dumit, eds. Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots NY: Routledge.
1997a "Real Time Fetus: the Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction". G.Downey, J.Dumit, S. Traweek, eds. Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions into Techno-Humanism.SAR/ Univ. Washington. Pp.31-48.
1997b "Communicating About Chromosomes: Patients, Providers, and Cultural Assumptions". Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 52: 28-30
1997c "Sex and Society" (with Ellen Ross), reprint of 1981c. in Micaela DiLeonardo and Roger Lancaster, eds. The Sexuality Reader. Routledge.
1996 "Producing and Mediating Science as a World View in Postwar America: Two Interviews" in George Marcus, ed. Connected: Engagements with the Media (late Editions 3). Univ. Chicago., pp.349-374. (with Fred Myers).
1995a "Introduction" in Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Univ. California, pp. 1-17.
1995b Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Univ. California, (edited with Faye Ginsburg).
1995c "Risky Business: Genetic Counseling in a Shifting World" in Jane Schneider & Rayna Rapp, eds. Articulating Hidden Histories. Univ. California, pp.175-189.
1995d Articulating Hidden Histories. Univ. California. (edited with Jane Schneider).
1995e "Heredity, or Revising the Facts of Life" in Naturalizing Power: Feminist Cultural Analysis. Carol Delaney and Sylvia Yanagisako, eds. Routledge, pp.69-86.
1994a "Women's Responses to Prenatal Diagnosis: A Sociocultural Perspective on Diversity". in Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology. Karen Rothenberg and Elizabeth Thomson, ed. Univ. Ohio Press. Pp. 219-33 (expansion of 1993b).
1994b "The Power of Positive Diagnosis: Medical & Maternal Voices in Amniocentesis", in Margaret Honey et al eds. Representations of Motherhood, Yale University., reprint of 1988d
1993a "Amniocentesis in Sociocultural Perspective" Journal of Genetic Counseling 2 (3):183-196.
1993b "Sociocultural Differences in the Impact of Amniocentesis: an Anthropological Research Report". Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, 8-s1-93, 97: 74 90-96.
1993c "Accounting for Amniocentesis" in Shirley Lindenbaum & Margaret Lock, eds. Knowledge, Power, and Practice: the Anthropology of Medicine in Everyday Life. Univ. California.
1993d "Reproduction and Gender Hierarchy: Amniocentesis in Contemporary America" in Barbara Miller,ed Sex & Gender Hierarchies. Univ. Chicago Press.
1991 "The Politics of Reproduction". Annual Review of Anthropology. Stanford. (with Faye Ginsburg) 20: 311-43.
1990a "Counseling the Under-served: When an Old Reproductive Technology Becomes a New Reproductive Technology" Birth Defects 26:109-126. (with Lavania Marfatia & Diana Punales-Morejon).
1990b "Constructing Amniocentesis: Medical and Maternal Voices". in Faye Ginsburg & Anna Tsing, eds, Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in America. Beacon, pp.28-42.
1990c "Familia y clase social en Estados Unidos: Hacia una comprensio'n de la ideologi'a" Elizabeth Jelin, ed. Mujeres, Hombres, Familias: Transformacion y Continuidad en America Latina. UNESCO. (trans. and reprint, 1978b)
1989a Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism (with co editors Sonia Kruks and Marilyn Young) Monthly Review Press.
1989b "Alternative Modes of Reproduction: Other Views and Questions" (with Wendy Chavkin and Barbara Katz Rothman) in Sherrill Cohen & Nadine Taub, eds, Reproductive Laws for the 1990s. Humana.
1989c reprint of 1988a in Linda Whiteford & Marilyn Poland, eds. New Approaches to Human Reproduction, Westview Press.
1988a "Chromosomes and Communication: the Discourse of Genetic Counseling" Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2:143-157.
1988b "Bob Scholte: A Personal Reminiscence." Anthropology & Humanism Quarterly. 13:63.
1988c "Feminist Anthropology: Methodologies for the 'Science of Man'?" in Sue Zalk Rosenberg, ed
1988d "The Power of Positive Diagnosis: Medical & Maternal Voices in Amniocentesis" in Karen Michaelson, ed. Childbirth in America: Anthropological Perspectives. South Hadley, Mass: Bergin & Garvey, pp.103-116.
1987a "Moral Pioneers: Women, Men and Fetuses on a Frontier of Reproductive Technology" Women & Health 13:101-116.
1987b "Toward a 'Nuclear Freeze'? The Gender Politics of Euro-American Kinship Analysis" in Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier, eds., Feminism and Kinship Theory, Stanford University Press, pp.119-131.
1986a "The 1920s: Feminism, Consumerism and Political Backlash in the United States, in Judith Friedlander, Blanche W. Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris & Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, eds, Women in Culture and Politics: A Century of change. Indiana University Press (with Ellen Ross).
1986b "Ritual of Reversion: On Fieldwork and Festivity in Haute Provence". Critique of Anthropology 6:35-48.
1985 "Antropologie: Feministiese methodologieen voor de'Science of Man'?" Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies 24:441452 ("Anthropology: Feminist Methods for the 'Science of Man'?")
1984a "Feminisme et Societe de Consommation dans l'Amerique des Annees 20". Strategies des Femmes, Paris:Editions Tierce.
1984b "XYLO: an Amniocentesis Story", in Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli-Klein & Shelley Minden, eds. Test-Tube Women. Routledge Kegan & Paul.
1984c reprint of 1981c in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson, eds, The Powers of Desire. Monthly Review Press.
1983a "The Twenties Backlash: Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Consumer Family and the Waning of Feminism", in Hanna Lessinger & Amy Swerdlow, ed, Race, Sex & Class: The Dynamics of Control, G.K.Hall & Co.(with Ellen Ross).
1983b "Urban Families in Contemporary America", in Leith Mullings, ed, Anthropology at Home, Columbia Univ. 1981a reprint of 1978b in Barrie Thorne, ed, Rethinking the Family, Longman.
1981b "Peasants into Proletarians from the Household Out", in Joan Mencher, ed, Contemporary Peasantries, Bombay, India: Somaiya.
1981c "Sex & Society: A Research Note from Anthropology and Social History", Comparative Studies in Society and History 23,#1:51-72 (with Ellen Ross).
1979a "Review Essay: Anthropology" Signs 4, #3:497-513.
1979b "Examining Family History" Feminist Studies 5,#1: 174-200 (with Ellen Ross & Renate Bridenthal).
1978a "Women, Religion, and Archaic Civilizations: an introduction" Feminist Studies 4,#3:1-6
1978b "Family and Class in Contemporary America", Science & Society 42, #3:278-300. reprinted from Michigan Papers in Women's Studies, special issue, May, 1978.
1977a "The Search for Origins: an Overview", Critique of Anthropology 3,#9/10:5-24.
1977b "Gender & Class: an Archaeology of Knowledge Concerning the Origins of the State" Dialectical Anthropology 2, #4:309-16.
1977c "The Politics of Tourism in a French Alpine Village", in Valene Smith, ed., Hosts and Guests: the Anthropology of Tourism. Univ. Pennsylvania Press.
1976 "Unraveling the Problem of Origins: an Anthropological Search for Feminist Theory", The Scholar and the Feminist II: Proceedings. (Barnard College pamphlet).
1975a editor, Toward an Anthropology of Women, Monthly Review Press.
1975b "Men and Women in the South of France: Public and Private Domains", in R.R. Reiter, ed Toward Anthropology of Women (1975a).
1973a "Peasant-Workers in the Tourist Industry: Whose Development?" Studies in European Society 1(1):21-38. (with Harriet Rosenberg & Randy Reiter).
1973b The Politics of Tourism in Two Southern French Communes, doctoral dissertation, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.
1972 "Modernization in the South of France: the Village and Beyond", Anthropological Quarterly 45:35-52.
1971 "Mobilization: Peasants in Social History and Anthropology", Michigan Papers in Anthropology 1:1-28 (with Harriet Rosenberg).
Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009 As the summer rolls on, I’m hip-deep in fieldwork, and, along with Todd Disotell, will be co-teaching our fall 2009 graduate departmental seminar, “Genes09”. We both look forward to more pedagogical integration of theory and method across the bio-social disciplines. I’ve watched our undergraduate course in “medical anthropology” grow, and am impressed with the cross-over for biological anthropologists and health-related majors, as well as relevance to students interested in sociocultural research. I was likewise pleased to convene the “Professionalization 08” seminar, and will lead it again in 2009. This seminar complements my work on UCAIS, NYU’s IRB to which all researchers who work with human subjects must apply. I also helped proposal writers navigate their way through IRB regulations in manners sensitive to their specifically anthropological methods. Therefore, all socio-cultural students: Please let me know if/ when you are ready for proposal review, and don’t submit to UCAIS without a conversation with me! Last year, I piloted a new undergraduate course, “Kinship and the Politics of Reproduction”; this year, I’ll offer a new graduate seminar on gender in the spring.
Faye Ginsburg and I have launched a research project on cultural innovation in special education in New York City; we were fortunate to receive initial funding from both the Spencer Foundation and NYU’s Institute for the Study of Human Development and Social Change. In addition to our joint work among media, legal, and educational innovators on this growing sector, I am now conducting fieldwork in scientific laboratories on brain research about learning, memory, and epigenetics. Of course, kinship relations lie at the heart of our project, and we are interviewing families across a wide array of social locations who have had the experience of having a child diagnosed with special educational categories and services. We see this as a particularly promising arena for understanding unanticipated cultural activism around gender, racial-ethnic, class and kinship claims on citizenship. Our new fieldwork concerns the perceived “cultural epidemic in learning disabilities”. We argue for an explicitly anthropological perspective on the growing public awareness and mediated diversity of “All Kinds of Minds” (to quote a famous and popular book on the subject) in U.S. families and communities.
Current writing is all in review and in press; three short essays reflecting on feminist anthropology will also shortly appear in various collections.
In the past year, I have given talks at conferences at UCL/ London; Humbolt University/Berlin; University of Cambridge; National Univ. of Ireland/Maynooth; Panteio University/Athens. Next year, I’ll give addresses at Gresham College/London, and BIOS/LSE in England; and Lund University/Sweden. In all these contexts, I’ve been pleased to learn about “science as culture”, and look forward to integrating these themes into my research and teaching here at NYU
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