{"product_id":"infertilities-robin-truth-goodman-9780816634880","title":"Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies Volume 4","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn original analysis of the role of female reproduction in the project of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today's global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her provocative analysis of literary and political representations of female infertility from the mid-nineteenth century to our day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoodman takes Darwin's studies on sterility between species as her starting point, exploring evolutionary science as the intersection of a colonial worldview based on class struggle and the pathologizing of female identities that fall outside reproductive normalcy. She then examines how Joseph Conrad constructs a vision of feminism as a product of miscegenation, how Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa deploy female figures of miscegenation to recast Latin American literature as \"difference,\" and how ecological devastation in the Brazilian Amazon is envisioned through failures in Indian marriage. Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, \u003ci\u003e Infertilities\u003c\/i\u003e points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Truth Goodman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816634882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816634880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.91w x 0.54d","brand":"Robin Truth Goodman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096752136447,"sku":"9780816634880","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/infertilities-robin-truth-goodman-9780816634880","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}