Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Self-devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa. Julie Livingston, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, 160 pp.

Sharon R. Kaufman

June 1, 2020

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Review of Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health. Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, 270 pp.

Emily Mendenhall

June 1, 2020

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Review of No Alternative: Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico. Rosalynn A. Vega, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018, 238 pp.

Lydia Zacher Dixon

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality and Biosociality in Denmark. Sebastian Mohr. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018, 198 pp.

Robert Pralat

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Global Fluids: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value. Charlotte Kroløkke, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018, 206 pp.

Katharine Dow

June 1, 2020

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Review of Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography. Rebecca M. Jordan—Young and Katrina Karkazis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, 289 pp.

Matthew Gutmann

June 1, 2020

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Review of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Births. Dana—Ain Davis, New York: NYU Press, 2019. 272 pp.

Khiara M. Bridges

June 1, 2020

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Review of Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. Ashanté M. Reese, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 183 pp.

Megan A. Carney

June 1, 2020

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Review of Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico. Whitney Duncan, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018, 272 pp.

Nia C. Parson

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho. Ellen Block and Will McGrath, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019, 246 pp.

Theodore Powers

June 1, 2020