New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment: Feminist and Material Resolutions

ISBN-13: 9780367599676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

Carla Lam

Opis

A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women's embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women's and men's reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another worl

Recenzje

’In a time that is oddly quiet in terms of critical feminist voices, this work on materialist feminist implications of new reproductive technologies is welcome and overdue. Treading carefully between the dominant theoretical posts of recent social and political thought, and engaging with shifting forms of capitalism, Lam brings useful critical insight into how and why new reproductive socio-technical systems form and how they erode a pluralism of being that sustained, collective feminism began.’ Annette Burfoot, Queen’s University, Canada

Spis treści

New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment

O autorze

Carla Lam is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.