Controlling Reproduction explores the powerful role of reproductive control across states, communities, families, and individuals worldwide. The book delves into how various social institutions—such as the state, religion, market, and family—negotiate reproductive power. Examples from different countries illustrate the complex interplay between gender, social processes, and political life.

Introduction : Controlling women, controlling reproduction -- Direct state control of reproduction -- Religion and the state -- State and family: cooperation and contestation -- State management of reproduction in the making and unmaking of communities -- Control of reproduction in a neoliberal world -- The global interconnections of Reproscapes -- Looking ahead.