Ph.D., University of Michigan, anthropology, 1969-73 M.A., University of Michigan, anthropology, 1968-69 B.S., University of Michigan, anthropology (with honors), 1964-68
Academic work
Discipline
Medical anthropology
Institutions
New School for Social Research (1973-1998) New York University (2001-present)
Rayna Rapp (pen name Rayna R. Reiter[1]) is a professor and associate chair of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender and health; the politics of reproduction; science, technology, and genetics; and disability in the United States and Europe.[2][3] She has contributed over 80 published works to the field of anthropology, independently, as a co-author, editor, and foreword-writing, including Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent's Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge. Her 1999 book, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, received multiple awards upon release[3][4] and has been praised for providing "invaluable insights into the first generation of women who had to decide whether or not to terminate their pregnancies on the basis of amniocentesis result".[5] She co-authored many articles with Faye Ginsburg, including Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship, a topic the pair has continued to research.[6]
^Rayna R. Reiter (1975-01-01). Toward An Anthropology of Women. ISBN 9780853453994.
RaynaRapp (pen name Rayna R. Reiter) is a professor and associate chair of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender and health; the...
empowered to nurture and reproduce, while others are disempowered," as RaynaRapp and Faye D. Ginsburg defined the term in 1995. Globally, women are confined...
stratified reproduction, eugenics, and the racialization of disease. RaynaRapp, an anthropologist who has written much on birth in the United States...
zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University RaynaRapp (pen name Rayna R. Reiter), professor and associate chair of anthropology at New...
The World: Women and The Communist Party in West Bengal,” Sonia Kruks, RaynaRapp and Marilyn Young, eds., Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to...
researchers approached reproductive studies through a gender-based framework, RaynaRapp emphasizing feminist ideology in her study of the impact of reproductive...
1980, Kramer and her anthropological colleagues, including Roger Sanjek, RaynaRapp, Carole Vance, and Glenn Peterson, drafted the “Resolution to Implement...
Intellectual and Cultural History Hamid Rahmanian Creative Arts Film-Video RaynaRapp Social Sciences Anthropology & Cultural Studies Victoria Redel Creative...
Bridgman Canadian writer Raquel Brailowsky Puerto Rican anthropologist RaynaRapp professor of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender...
anthropology undermines the ethnocentricism of feminism. Feminist anthropology, RaynaRapp argues, is subject to a 'double difference' from mainstream academia....
Kinship, and the State in Contemporary Cuba", which was supervised by Dr. RaynaRapp. "Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet...
organization's founding leaders are: Naomi Quinn, Carole Hill, Sylvia Forman, RaynaRapp and Louise Lamphere. The group recognized the need for anthropologists...
Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America by RaynaRapp (2000) Portal: LGBT "Center on Halsted - Chicago's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual...
studying obstetrical anthropology and cross-cultural birth practices. RaynaRapp praised Jordan for her authoritative knowledge of childbirth: "Jordan...
The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania". In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Rapp, Rayna, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction...
The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania". In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Rapp, Rayna, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction...
Elsa, I Come with My Songs: The Autobiography of Elsa Gidlow (1986) Rapp, Rayna (Intro.); Gidlow, Elsa (Spring, 1980). "Memoirs". Feminist Studies. 6...
The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania". In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Rapp, Rayna, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction...
The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania". In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Rapp, Rayna, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction...
Nature". Fordham University. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Ginsburg, Faye; Rapp, Rayna (2020). "Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human"...
47–. ISBN 978-0-8248-2314-6. Retrieved 26 April 2013. Kruks, Sonia; Rapp, Rayna; Young, Marilyn Blatt (1 April 1989). Promissory notes: women in the...
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