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Environmental Politics of Reproduction

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Lappé, Martine, Jeffries Hein, Robbin, Landecker, Hannah·2019·Annual Review of Anthropology
DOI 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011346PMC PMC6937137
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What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly perceived as bound up in environmental issues. This review maps the growing overlap between formerly rather separate domains of reproductive politics and environmental politics, examining three interrelated areas. The first is the emergence of an intersectional environmental reproductive justice framework in activism and environmental health science. The second is the biomedical delineation of the environment of reproduction and development as an object of growing research and intervention, as well as the marking off of early-life environments as an “exposed biology” consequential to the entire life span. Third is researchers’ critical engagement with the reproductive subject of environmental politics and the lived experience of reproduction in environmentally dystopic times. Efforts to rethink the intersections of reproductive and environmental politics are found throughout these three areas.

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  • Pregnancy trials, and recent preconception trials modeled on pregnancy trials, reflect the expansion of reproductive surveillance and management across the life course and into future generations.

    “In addition, pregnancy trials, and the recent preconception trials that are modeled on pregnancy trials, reflect the expansion of reproductive surveillance and management across the life course and into future generation (Waggoner 2017; Lappé, Hein, and Landecker 2019; Pentecost and Meloni 2020).”

    From The Politics of Postgenomic Reproduction: Exploring Pregnant Narratives from within a Clinical Trial (2022) · cites this paper as Lappé, Hein, and Landecker 2019

    In “The Reproductive Subject of Environmental Health Discourse and Research” (page not provided), the paper discusses pregnancy-related clinical trials and preconception health campaigns that position women’s bodies as sites for future reproduction. “Ethnography of ‘Exposed Biologies’ and the Politics of Early Life” describes repeated sampling across life courses and concern for future generations. Neither passage says that preconception trials are modeled on pregnancy trials, so that specific part is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Feminist scholars have moved to position the language of choice within a much broader, intersectional framework of reproductive and environmental justice.

    “feminist scholars have moved to position the language of choice to a much broader, intersectional framework of reproductive and environmental justice”

    From #My(white)BodyMyChoice (2023) · cites this paper as Lappé et al., 2019

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Authors
Lappé, M., Jeffries Hein, R., & Landecker, H.
Affiliations
  • California Polytechnic State University (US)
  • Encino, California 91436, USA;
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
ORCID
Venue
Annual Review of Anthropology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2019-10-21
Volume
48
Issue
1
Pages
133-150
ISSN
  • 0084-6570 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-4290
DOI
10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011346
PMC
PMC6937137
OpenAlex
W2957161348
Cited by
102
References
131
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3 · 2018: 1
FWCI
9.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annual Review of Anthropology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • John Templeton Foundation
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R00HG009154)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Keywords
reproductive politics, environmental politics, reproductive justice, intersectionality, environmental health, early life environment, developmental origins of health and disease, environmental exposure, environmental activism

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