Annette Burfoot, Derya Güngör

Women and Reproductive Technologies (eBook, PDF)

The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429885259
• Artikelnr.: 62903941

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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