The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in...
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The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History by Weinbaum, Alys Eve

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

BD$64.15

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

BD$64.15
Author: Alys Eve Weinbaum
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive body, biocapitalism is dependent upon what Weinbaum calls the slave episteme--the racial logic that drove four centuries of slave breeding in the Americas and Caribbean. Weinbaum outlines how the slave episteme shapes the practice of reproduction today, especially through use of biotechnology and surrogacy. Engaging with a broad set of texts, from Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia Butler's dystopian speculative fiction to black Marxism, histories of slavery, and legal cases involving surrogacy, Weinbaum shows how black feminist contributions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s constitute a powerful philosophy of history--one that provides the means through which to understand how reproductive slavery haunts the present.

Author: Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781478002840

About the Author
Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.

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