Michelle Murphy

The Economization of Life

Claudette Michelle Murphy

Professor Michelle Murphy

DIVAn account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence./div

Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers

Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.

Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

Seizing the Means of Reproduction

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Brooklyn museum (Brooklyn)

Two Centuries of French Fashion. Introduction by Michelle Murphy, ...

Rebecca A. Clark

Gloria Richard-Davis

Jill Hayes

Aims to guide prospective parents through the complicated mazes of assisted reproduction and adoption. This work describes fertility assistance, surrogacy, and adoption, clearly outlining the requirements of each strategy. It compares the medical, emotional, financial, and legal investments and risks involved with each of these options.

Strategies for Success in Fertility Assistance, Adoption, and Surrogacy

Planning Parenthood

The poems of Jackknife & Light (which was a finalist in the National Poetry Series of 1996) give their meanings up slowly, with a languorous precision and care. They aspire to and demand what Murphy defines as a unique "method of looking" and reading... and thinking. "This ghost hums in her hair, his slight tunes rising against his ear but never making it inside. To where_e the song might matter...."

Jackknife & Light

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others might live more prosperously. Resituating the history of postcolonial neoliberal technique in expert circuits between the United States and Bangladesh, Murphy traces the methods and imaginaries through which family planning calculated lives not worth living, lives not worth saving, and lives not worth being born. The resulting archive of thick data transmuted into financialized “Invest in a Girl” campaigns that reframed survival as a question of human capital. The book challenges readers to reject the economy as our collective container and to refuse population as a term of reproductive justice.

Cynthia Marie

"The Barista Diary" tells the story of the daily life as a barista and store owner. This book shares stories from neighbors, customers, and plenty more from the perspective of Christy. Christy lives alone with her animals and maintains her huge property and business. Throughout the book, Christy shares her struggles with PTSD & OCD. Even with managing unhealthy patterns and thoughts, she's reminded of her strength, and the collective strength of women. The book is filled with characters, and some stay the entire book as part of the story. For each day in the book, Christy provides the weather and a recipe, and she journals her scanner incidents. Also included in this unforgettable book is rich information about Washington State history, including areas, tribes, railroad, mining, successful businesses, espresso and more. Running the store on her own, Christy is lonely, tired, sad, happy, hardworking, craving love, insecure, scared, brave, feisty, kind, sarcastic, rugged, pretty, and stressed. But she loves her world and business. All of Seattle drives right by her location to hit the nearby ski slopes or various tourist attractions in eastern Washington. She welcomes people from all over the world with open arms unless they have bad behavior...then look out! She fights the harsh weather being in the mountains, where she plows her own snow and asks her trusty local to install her truck chains each year. In this book, she shares the many stories of how men and women treat each other in person and behind doors. Christy has an invisible score card that she uses to add or deduct points. This barista loves every minute of it but wishes she could conquer love. At the end of each day, Christy heads back upstairs after she closes shop to ponder life, lovelessness, her past, future and fantasies. She snuggles her dog, craving a man, and falls asleep to arise again for the public. She lives in a very scenic area and knows the challenges. This is a deeply personal and authentic story. As a barista, Christy opens her door to so many people, and each person she meets has a story. This book tells these incredible stories while leaving plenty of space for introspection.

Plus 365 Pacific Northwest Daily Grind Recipes

The Barista Diary

Imagine that you are a young adult, minding your own business, happily engaged in your activities and relationships, and enjoying all the milestones that come with such an exciting time of life. Perhaps you are in college, anticipating graduation, dreaming about your future, hoping to one day marry and have children, applying for jobs or making plans to start your own business. And then one night, you begin to hear voices in your head. You dismiss it, telling yourself it is nothing. And then it happens again. Unable to sleep for nights on end, you toss and turn, slowly losing your ability to control your thoughts as your mind travels at breakneck speed through a kaleidoscope of frightening images and sounds. Your mind is racing and yet, at the same time, all the strange things you are experiencing with such intensity have a slow-motion quality to them. You feel paralyzed. Who can you trust? Who can you turn to? How do you sort through all your thoughts and experiences to determine which are real and which are unreal? And where do you go when no place feels safe? My Black Box: Flights of Bipolar offers readers a rare, courageous, and candid look inside a bipolar mind as it takes flight from reality and enters the world of full-blown psychosis. Given the paranoia that often accompanies severe mental illness, it is not unusual for a psychotic individual to hide from strangers and outsiders the frightening and disturbing things going on in their mind and their life. In opening her black box and revealing its contents, Michelle Murphy gives us a tremendous gift—a context within which to understand our loved ones who suffer from bipolar, schizophrenic, and schizoaffective disorders. This book will also serve as a compass for those who may be hearing voices, experiencing paranoia, hallucinating, or suffering with other symptoms of psychosis, and attempting to navigate those frightening waters. Anyone who is living with a serious mental illness will identify with Michelle’s psychotic episodes, and in so doing, feel less alone. And everyone who reads this book will feel both encouraged and inspired by the determination with which the author continues to face her challenges, move forward, and excel in her life. This successful electrical engineer, wife, and active member of her community has done a tremendous service to us all by revealing to us her innermost demons and struggles—and sharing her victories and successes. She proves that with perseverance and proper medical attention, the mentally ill need not be defined by their illness, nor destined to live anything but rich, full, and productive lives.

Michelle Murphy

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