Social movements often organise activities around the use of written forms. Yet these literacy events and practices have received little attention for the roles they play in effecting social, cultural and political change. In this article we argue that literacy activities should be analysed for...

This paper contributes an empirically-based analysis of how women negotiate reproductive desires and constructions of risk in light of genetic information for a single-gene disorder with known inheritance patterns. Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common cause of inherited intellectual...

Klinefelter, Turner, and fragile X syndromes are conditions defined by a genetic or chromosomal variant. The timing of diagnosis, tests employed, specialists involved, symptoms evident, and prognoses available vary considerably within and across these syndromes, but all three share in common a...

Genomic research has rapidly expanded its scope and ambition over the past decade, promoted by both public and private sectors as having the potential to revolutionize clinical medicine. This promissory bioeconomy of genomic research and technology is generated by, and in turn generates, the...