GLOBALIZING REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS: SANGER'S LEGACY IN JAPAN - Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci. Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. xviii + 318 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-50360-225-0.

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 728-729
Author(s):  
Sumiko Otsubo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Reproductive Politics

Raanan Rein, Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina, trans. Marsha Grenzeback. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 166 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
American Jews ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter reviews the books Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (2014), by Raanan Rein, translated by Marsha Grenzeback, and Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas (2014), edited by Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin. Rein’s book deals with the “making” of Argentina through football (soccer), while Muscling in on New Worlds focuses on the “making” of the Americas (mainly the one America, called the United States) through sports. Muscling in on New Worlds is a collection of essays that seeks to advance the common theme of sport as “an avenue by which Jews threaded the needle of asserting a Jewish identity.” Topics include Jews as boxers, Jews and football, Jews and yoga, Orthodox Jewish athletes, and American Jews and baseball. There are also essays about the cinematic and literary representations of Jews in sports.

Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Samoa. By W. Schramm, L. M. Nelson and M. T. Betham. Stanford University Press, 1981, $17.50, 214 pp

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. A69-A69
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Learning Curve ◽  
Educational Television ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Gulf Of Tonkin

In 1962 in the full flush of (pre-Gulf of Tonkin) expansiveness, the United States congress voted nearly $2½m to bring six channels of educational television to the atolls and islets that make up American Samoa. Those were hopeful times. Congressmen—and most other Americans—believed in educable Asians, in the great television learning curve, and social engineering on a big scale. Thus a 5,000-foot aerial tramway was strung across Pago Pago Bay to ship a television antenna to the Samoan peaks; classrooms built and sets installed; thousands of hours of programming produced.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This chapter explores how recent discourses of motherhood and nation are deeply enmeshed and mutually constitutive. I trace a brief history of reproductive politics in the United States, clarifying how the project of nation building has consistently enlisted motherhood and worked to govern women’s reproduction through differential modes of surveillance and control. This chapter provides the historical and theoretical foundations for the book; it notes the precedents to homeland maternity while also elaborating on how contemporary alignments of motherhood and nation are distinct and specific to homeland security culture.

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