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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
... might be altogether refused in the future. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. slavery human reproduction racial...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Weinbaum Alys Eve . The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Weinbaum Alys Eve...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... .” In (In)Fertile Citizens: Anthropological and Legal Challenges of Assisted Reproduction Technologies , edited by Kantsa Venetia , Zanini Giulia , and Papadopoulou Lina , 197 – 216 . Athens : InFERCIT , 2015 . Vora Kalindi . “ After the Housewife: Surrogacy, Labour, and Human...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... This reproductive criteria provides a simultaneously inclusive and exclusive notion of species: individuals belong to the same species if and only if they reproduce offspring who can reproduce more offspring-a criteria that essentializes both sexual difference and race as natural catego ries.39 Once the human...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... processes, which he called the "vegetative functions:'26 Plants assimilated nutrients and repro duced; when animals performed the same functions, they needed to use plant matter.Eating appeared as a form of reproduction-a transfer of matter from plants and animals to human bodies.Reproduction...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... women’s reproduction, Dorothy Roberts echoes this point: “The fact that white men could profit from raping their female slaves does not mean that their motive was economic. The rape of slave women by their masters was primarily a weapon of terror that reinforced whites’ domination over their human...
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Becoming “Welfare Island”: Reproductive Labor and Racial Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the most intensively cultivated “sugar islands” in the world ( Giusti-Cordero 58 ). Labor in the cane fields, however, was not the only thing that mattered under slavery: so too did reproductive labor. It marked the slavers’ work of rendering a human who could reproduce into a unit of value, whose...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., I was passively earning my secure public identity as a free sexual person possessing valuable reproductive capacities—and a future—that belonged to me. I became, anew, the necessary and defining contrast to my Black peer. The supremacist intentions of whites who resisted the Black citizenship claims...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in textiles and global cotton production. Examining a series of family portraits, the article locates the eclipsed yet central force of Black women’s productive and socially reproductive work extracted for the creation of white, heteropatriarchal reproduction and property accumulation. e.dillon...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
...S. J. Zhang Abstract This article explores how, in 1784 New Orleans, Cecilia Conway—a recaptured maroon woman—asserted that she was pregnant and thereby leveraged the power of her reproductive labor. Her claims about her body briefly slowed down the system of capital punishment activated...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that Freud’s theory of mind was “an epoch-making interpretation of human experience in which politics could be reduced to an epiphenomenal manifestation of psychic forces” (329–30). So, when Elizabeth Roudinesco recounts that Freud called himself an “old-style liberal” (20) one should hasten to add...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 169–186.
Published: 01 October 2015
..., it succeeds as a case study-an extended inquiry into the "ideas" explaining Nan Prince's unconventional life through which Jewett explores human deviance and variation more gen erally. Time and again, Jewett departs from the plot of her heroine's child hood in favor of extended conceptualizations wherein...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of neocolonialist and assimilationist projects behind the deception of the new missionary expeditions that are presented as philanthropic-or rather, as "philogynist:' Furthermore, no tions such as "enlightened fundamentalism" and "secular humanism" have suggested that the legacies of secularism...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... again, historians have failed to engage the question ofwomen's reproductive capacity as some thing that is either connected to, or distinct from, their monetary value. More pointedly, scholars have started from the assumptionthatwomen's economic and reproductive productivity inside African states...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... to be discrete, indiscrete, or interpenetrating domains of human activity? In the formulation offered above by historian ofChristian ity Mark Jordan, theologies are theories of "how to make sex out ofbodies and pleasures: 1 The idea that theology articulates sex confounds our usual habits ofthought. Typically...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
... eighteenth century, the past imposed itself as the obj ect of study that would reveal the internal logic of the "interplay and laws of human revolutions :'2 The traumatic rupture with and radical disavowal of the past could be understood only by what had caused them: " To understand the Revolution...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... presumably legal wife. All of this signified that they were part of the "civil society and humanity" that Beane and his wife had rejected. The sexual and reproductive logic of the wholly private family was incestuous. The private family, in this story, operated not only outside of but also against society...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . Hartman Saidiya . “ The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors .” Souls 18 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 166 – 73 . Heerman M. Scott . The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730–1865 . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
... society was established, were presumed to be able to sign the marriage contract? To this question, which I shall come back to later, there is the radical solution from Hobbes, who keeps the contract model as the necessary foundation of any human relationship, and is therefore led to interpret all forms...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 October 2011
... genetic material. For all mammals the process of reproduction is at the centre of their behavioural systems. For mammals with minds, this is unlikely to be different:'38 The idea that human sexuality is primarily about reproduction is indistinguishable from the idea that human sexuality is heterosexual...
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