MIT Anthropology - Faculty Bio - Heather Paxson

HEATHER PAXSON | Publications

BOOKS

2004

Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece . Berkeley: University of California Press.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

2008

"Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the United States." Cultural Anthropology 23(1): 15-47.

2006

"Reproduction as Spiritual Kin Work: Orthodoxy, IVF and the Moral Economy of Motherhood in Greece." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 30(4): 481-505.

2005

"Slow Food in a Fat Society: Satisfying Ethical Appetites." Gastronomica 5(1): 14-18.

2003

"With or Against Nature? IVF as a Proper Means of Reproduction in Greece." Social Science and Medicine 56(9): 1853-1866.

2002

"Rationalizing Sex: Family Planning and the Making of Modern Lovers in Urban Greece." American Ethnologist 29(2): 307-344.

1997

"Gender and Genealogy, Diaspora and Demography: Anthropological Notes on Greek Population Policy." South European Society and Politics 2(2): 34-56.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

2007

"A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece." In Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World , Mark B. Padilla, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Robert E. Sember, and Richard G. Parker, eds. Pp. 120-138. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

2006

"Artisanal Cheese and Economies of Sentiment in New England." In Fast Food / Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System . Richard Wilk, ed. Pp. 201-217. Lanham, MD: Altamira.

2005

"Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Greece." In Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective . Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds. Pp. 95-124. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2005

"Underfertility's Challenge to Family and Gender Relations in Urban Greece." In Barren States: The Population ÔImplosion' in Europe. Carrie B. Douglass, ed. Pp. 137-157. Oxford, UK: Berg Press.

2005

(with Stefan Helmreich) "Sex on the Brain: A Natural History of Rape and the Dubious Doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology." In Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back . Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, eds. Pp. 180-205. Berkeley: University of California Press.

BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES

in press

Review of The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food is Wrong , by Barry Glassner. Agricultural History.

in press

"Pro-Choice/Pro-Life." In International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. William A. Darity, ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA/Thompson Gale.

2005

"Abortion/Anti-Abortion Conflict." In Science, Technology, and Society. Sal Restivo, ed. Pp. 1-2. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2005

Review of Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia , by Melissa L. Caldwell. Postcolonial Studies 8(1): 127-131.

2002

Review of The Elusive Embryo: How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies, by Gay Becker, and Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism, by Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine, eds. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(1): 110-112.

2001

Review of Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints, by Andrew Russell, Elisa Sobo and Mary Thompson, eds. American Ethnologist 28(3): 716-717.

2001

Review of The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania, by Gail Kligman. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 1(2): 164-166.

1999

Review of From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in Rural Spain, by Jane F. Collier. South European Society and Politics 4(2): 251-252.

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