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The Material Gene Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century General Editors: Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Thomas Lemke Against Health: How Health The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Became the New Morality Heredity after the Human Genome Project Edited by Jonathan M. Metzl Kelly E. Happe and Anna Kirkland Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood Joan B. Wolf The Material Gene Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project Kelly E. Happe a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London www.nyupress.org © 2013 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet Websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Happe, Kelly E. The material gene : gender, race, and heredity after the human genome project / Kelly E. Happe. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8147-9067-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-8147-9068-7 (paperback) 1. Genomics—Social aspects. 2. Human genetics—Social aspects. 3. Genetic engineering—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title. QH438.7.H37 2013 572.8’6—dc23 2012048186 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Chase Lewis (1919–2003) This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xiii 1 Ideology and the New Rhetoric of Genomics 1 2 Heredity as Ideology: Situating Genomics Historically 23 3 Genomics and the Reproductive Body 61 4Genomics and the Racial Body 101 5 Genomics and the Polluted Body 139 6Toward a Biosociality without Genes 177 Notes 189 Bibliography 243 Index 273 About the Author 288 >> vii This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments I count myself lucky that this book was mostly a labor of love and not just, well, labor. I have many people to thank for that. First, I’d like to thank Carol Stabile for many years of mentoring, support, and friendship. Her work on the intersection of feminism, technology, and political economy proved absolutely crucial to my thinking. I continue to reap the benefits of the top-notch education I received at the University of Pittsburgh. Many thanks go to John Lyne, Gordon Mitchell, Robert Olby, Peter Machamer, John McGuire, and Danae Clark. In the ensuing years, I have benefited from colleagues and mentors who invested their time and energy in my intellectual and scholarly growth. I thank Karen Whedbee (especially for proving that the intellectual is not an endangered species in academia after all), Rob Brookey, Lois Self, and Beatrix Hoffman for much-appreciated feedback and support. At the University of Georgia, I thank Chris Cuomo, Patricia Richards, Susan Thomas, Bethany Moreton, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Tom Lessl, and Roger Stahl for their inspiring scholarship and for their generosity in supporting my own work. Ed Panetta, my colleague in the Department of Commu- nication Studies, was my intercollegiate debate coach many moons ago— I’m not at all surprised that I appreciate him as a colleague as much as I appreciated him as a mentor during those formative undergraduate days. Barb Biesecker has introduced me to both biopolitical scholarship and the people producing it—and this book has benefited as a result. Celeste Con- dit long ago inspired my interest in rhetoric and genetics; more recently, she has been a cherished mentor. I continue to enjoy our conversations about life, work, and, of course, genes. Finally, I thank Darrel Wanzer, Phaedra Pezzullo, Ron Greene, and Stuart Murray for their advice, engag- ing conversations, and influential scholarship. >> ix
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