New Reproductive Technologies, Women's Health and Autonomy

Freedom or Dependency?
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9431-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 708 Seiten, Gewicht: 878 g

Reihe: Alternatives in Development

This book examines the new technologies which intervene in the process of human reproduction in three areas: contraception; assisted reproduction; genetics and prenatal diagnosis. The author clarifies that technologies in these categories can and do overlap. She discusses the implications for: women's health and autonomy; the roles of women and men and the reproduction of gender relations; and the politics of reproduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Jyotsna Agnihorti

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Gender Constructions and Control of Women's Bodies
Deconstructing/Reconstructing Motherhood
Control over Reproduction and Population Policies
A Gender Perspective
Preventing Conception and Preventing Birth
Assisted Reproduction
'From Cows to Women'
New Gene Technologies of Reproduction
From 'Supermice to Superhumans'
A Double-Edged Sword
Prenatal Diagnosis Technologies for Pregnancy Management
Voices from the Field
New Freedoms, New Dependencies