1st Edition
New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment Feminist and Material Resolutions
By Carla Lam
Copyright 2015
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment
Biography
Carla Lam is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
’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
