Announcing the winner of the 2015 Adele E. Clarke Book Award
ReproNetwork, an interdisciplinary group of researchers who
study reproduction, is pleased to announce the winner of the 2015 Adele E.
Clarke Book Award: Conceiving
Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era by
Elise Andaya (Rutgers University Press). A superb ethnographic study, Conceiving Cuba is a
beautifully written and politically urgent book. It is likely to influence
scholarship on reproduction for many years to come.
We are also delighted to award an honorable mention to Wombs in Labor: Transnational
Commercial Surrogacy in India by Amrita Pande (Columbia University
Press).
Initiated by the ReproNetwork community in 2014, the Adele E.
Clarke Book Award is presented every other fall to honor an outstanding
socio-cultural study of reproductive processes, experiences, technologies,
politics, and/or practices. Consistent with the composition of the ReproNetwork
community, the prize committee welcomes submissions by historians,
sociologists, anthropologists, public intellectuals, activists, and others.
We also thank the 2015 Book Prize Committee for their work to
establish this award and review the many excellent submissions.
2015 Book Prize Committee:
Chair: Monica J. Casper, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
Rene Almeling, Sociology, Yale University
Lara Freidenfelds, History, Independent Scholar
Vanessa Hildebrand, Anthropology, Case Western
Jennifer Lahl, Center for Bioethics & Culture Network
2015 Book Prize Committee:
Chair: Monica J. Casper, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
Rene Almeling, Sociology, Yale University
Lara Freidenfelds, History, Independent Scholar
Vanessa Hildebrand, Anthropology, Case Western
Jennifer Lahl, Center for Bioethics & Culture Network
About ReproNetwork
ReproNetwork aims to provide a space for social scientists and advocates working on reproductive issues to connect with one another—a place to share research ideas and resources. ReproNetwork includes students, professors, advocates, sociologists, anthropologists, midwives and others. You may become a member by subscribing to our listserv or by following our Facebook page.
ReproNetwork aims to provide a space for social scientists and advocates working on reproductive issues to connect with one another—a place to share research ideas and resources. ReproNetwork includes students, professors, advocates, sociologists, anthropologists, midwives and others. You may become a member by subscribing to our listserv or by following our Facebook page.