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Rayna Rapp
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 82
Citations - 4622
Rayna Rapp is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reproductive technology & Reproduction (economics). The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 81 publications receiving 4417 citations. Previous affiliations of Rayna Rapp include The New School.
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Testing women, testing the fetus
TL;DR: Testing Women, Testing the Fetus as discussed by the authors explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity, and examines how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of new reproducing technologies.
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Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction
Faye Ginsburg,Rayna Rapp +1 more
TL;DR: In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory.
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The politics of reproduction.
Faye Ginsburg,Rayna Rapp +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of the politics of reproduction synthesizes local and global perspectives and is used to analyze state eugenic policies; conflicts over Western neocolonial influences in which women's status as childbearers represent nationalist interests; fundamentalist attacks on abortion rights; and the AIDS crisis.
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Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship
Rayna Rapp,Faye Ginsburg +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the author describes how a person with a mental disability has to pass from the "shock phase" to the "acceptance phase" and how to move beyond this to a more positive adjustment.
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Chromosomes and Communication: The Discourse of Genetic Counseling
TL;DR: The language of genetic counseling as it communicates and miscommunicates not only medical information but also structural power arrangements, social knowledge, and popular meanings about medically defined disability are examined.