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Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed seminal works and activism on a number of fronts for four decades. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the publisher's blurb, "Provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. This title 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, it examines how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed." Contributions by both editors and by Ann Anagnost, Gertrude J. Fraser, Shellee Coloen, Ellen Lewin, Leith Mullings, Martha C. Ward, Soheir A. Morsy, Peter Schneider and Jane…
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