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New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment: Feminist and Material Resolutions
Carla Lam
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With attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women's reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. 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 world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and ... Read more
With attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women's reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. 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 world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Theory, Technology and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472437051
SKU
V9781472437051
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About Carla Lam
Carla Lam is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Reviews for New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment: Feminist and Material Resolutions
'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 ... Read more