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This book explores the contexts for gender identity development in early childhood education, examining how early childhood educators' views on children's gender identity influence their practice in Australia. The author utilizes feminist post-structuralism, queer theory and performativity as theoretical approaches, and feminist post-structuralist discourse and thematic analyses. The book captures the voices of educators and developers of curriculum documents to explore how gender expansive environments can be created when such environments are socially and politically contentious. It then identifies discourses that enable and constrain the building of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education, while considering how to disrupt normative notions of gender and promote the deployment of discursive agency. Rachel Chapman is an experienced academic in early childhood education at Melbourne Polytechnic in Melbourne, Australia. She earned a PhD in Education from RMIT University. Her research areas include early childhood education, gender, diversity, inclusion, policy and teacher practice, and she has extensive experience in curriculum design. She is a board member of Social Justice in Early Childhood.

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Reproduction on the Margins -- 2. The Road to Mucessua -- 3. The Nova Vida -- 4. Reproducing Reproducers -- 5. Controlling Women: Reproducing Risk -- 6. Seeking Safe Passage: Pregnancy Risk and Prenatal Care -- 7. Segredos da Casa -- 8. AIDS and the Politics of Protection -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Thirty years since its first public use in 1980, the phrase structural adjustment remains obscure for many anthropologists and public health workers. However, structural adjustment programs (SAPs) are the practical tools used by international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to promote the market fundamentalism that constitutes the core of neoliberalism. A robust debate continues on the impact of SAPs on national economies and public health. But the stories that anthropologists tell from the field overwhelmingly speak to a new intensity of immiseration produced by adjustment programs that have undermined public sector services for the poor. This review provides a brief history of structural adjustment, and then presents anthropological analyses of adjustment and public health. The first section reviews studies of health services and the second section examines literature that assesses broader social determinants of health influenced by adjustment.

Incarceration impacts families by disrupting routine attachment, creating negative consequences for both the parent and child. This article examines the use of an intervention videoing incarcerated parents reading to their children and then delivering those videos to improve child outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach, a total of 587 surveys were completed by program participants and analyzed for parental perceptions of the program effectiveness. The intervention appeared to increase the frequency of correspondence between the parent and child, improved the sense of parent-child relationship, and increased a sense of involvement, attachment, and connectedness.