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Women and Reproductive Technologies: The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World book cover

1st Edition

Women and Reproductive Technologies The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World

By Annette Burfoot, Derya Güngör Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. A sociological and historical study of the development of reproductive technologies, this book focuses on key technological developments through a biomedicalization lens with special attention to gender. Using in vitro... Read more

Introduction

1. Reproductive theories – then and now

2. The medicalization of pregnancy and birth

3. The social control of reproduction

4. Reproduction and sexuality

5. In vitro fertilization and genetic engineering

6. The regulation of new reproductive technologies and genetic engineering

7. Reproductive rights and reproductive justice in the face of NRTs

8. Women-and-new-reproductive-technologies: kinship and the biomedicalization of life itself

Biography

Annette Burfoot is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies and the four volume set Visual Culture and Gender, and the co-editor of Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence.

Derya Güngör received her PhD in Sociology from Queen's University in 2019. She is specialized in feminist theories, biopolitics, reproduction politics, pregnancy governance and sociology of medicine.

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