{"product_id":"the-politics-of-reproduction-race-medicine-and-fertility-in-the-age-of-abolition-paperback","title":"The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine Paugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic slave trade. By establishing the ubiquity of visions of fertility and subsequent economic growth during this time, \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Reproduction\u003c\/em\u003e sheds fresh light on the oft-debated question of whether abolitionism was understood by contemporaries as economically beneficial to the plantation colonies. At the same time, Katherine Paugh makes novel assertions about the importance of Britain's Caribbean colonies in the emergence of population as a political problem. The need to manipulate the labor market on Caribbean plantations led to the creation of new governmental strategies for managing sex and childbearing, such as centralized nurseries, discouragement of extended breastfeeding, and financial incentives for childbearing, that have become commonplace in our modern world. While assessing the politics of reproduction in the British Empire and its Caribbean colonies in relationship to major political events such as the Haitian Revolution, the study also focuses in on the island of Barbados. The remarkable story of an enslaved midwife and her family illustrates how plantation management policies designed to promote fertility affected Afro-Caribbean women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Reproduction\u003c\/em\u003e draws on a wide variety of sources, including debates in the British Parliament and the Barbados House of Assembly, the records of Barbadian plantations, tracts about plantation management published by doctors and plantation owners, and missionary records related to the island of Barbados.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Paugh, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of History, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatherine Paugh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her research interests encompass the history of race and gender, the history of medicine, and the politics of childbearing. She has been selected for over a dozen grants and fellowships that support outstanding research, including awards from the Huntington Library and the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Her work has appeared in journals including the Bulletin of the \u003cem\u003eHistory of Medicine, Past \u0026amp; Present, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSlavery \u0026amp; Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2014, she was awarded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.1 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47482740441266,"sku":"9780192863928","price":64.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c57cd7245f992f050f3a242149ca82db.webp?v=1779265010","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-politics-of-reproduction-race-medicine-and-fertility-in-the-age-of-abolition-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}