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Seizing the Means of Reproduction
In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy tra...
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
DIVAn account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence./div
The Economization of Life
What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, M. Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others might live more prosperously. Resituating the history of postcolonial neoliberal technique in expert circuits between the United States and Bangladesh, Murphy traces the methods and imaginaries through which family planning calculated lives not worth living, lives not worth saving, and lives not worth being born. The resulting archive of thick data transmuted into financialized “Invest in a Girl” campaigns that reframed survival as a question of human capital. The book challenges readers to reject the economy as our collective container and to refuse population as a term of reproductive justice.
Is It Just My Genes?
How do we define mental illness? Can we question doctors' diagnoses? Does psychosis or schizophrenia or depression or any other similar label carry a life sentence for the individual? How much do we really know about mental illness? Michelle Murphy takes a fresh and open look at what we call mental illness, exploring possible environmental influences of the West's modern lifestyle as well as examining whether the mentally ill really are ill. Murphy's insight will have you looking at mental illness in a new light -- and looking for new ways to deal with this "disease." How do we define mental illness? Can we question doctors' diagnoses? Does psychosis or schizophrenia or depression or any other similar label carry a life sentence for the individual? How much do we really know about mental illness? Michelle Murphy takes a fresh and open look at what we call mental illness, exploring possible environmental influences of the West's modern lifestyle as well as examining whether the mentally ill really are ill. Murphy's insight will have you looking at mental illness in a new light -- and looking for new ways to deal with this "disease."
The Soundscape of Modernity
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, mic...
My Black Box
Imagine that you are a young adult, minding your own business, happily engaged in your activities and relationships, and enjoying all the milestones that come with such an exciting time of life. Perhaps you are in college, anticipating graduation, dreaming about your future, hoping to one day marry and have children, applying for jobs or making plans to start your own business. And then one night, you begin to hear voices in your head. You dismiss it, telling yourself it is nothing. And then it happens again. Unable to sleep for nights on end, you toss and turn, slowly losing your ability to control your thoughts as your mind travels at breakneck speed through a kaleidoscope of frightening i...
Osiris
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