Gena Corea, Renate Duelli Klein, Jalna Hanmer

Man-Made Women

How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. Originally published in 1985, this book describes the technologies being used and researched in the areas of in vitro fertilization ('test-tube babies'), sex-predetermination and embryo transfer at the time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9781032850863
• ISBN-10: 1032850868
• Artikelnr.: 72014979

Autorenporträt

Gena Corea, Renate Duelli Klein, Jalna Hanmer, Helen B. Holmes, Betty Hoskins, Madhu Kishwar, Janice Raymond, Robyn Rowland and Roberta Steinbacher

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors. Preface Janice Raymond 1. Prenatal and Preconception
Sex Choice Technologies: A Path to Femicide? Helen B. Holmes and Betty B.
Hoskins 2. The Continuing Deficit of Women in India and the Impact of
Amniocentesis Madhu Kishwar 3. The Reproductive Brothel Gena Corea 4. Sex
Choice: Survival and Sisterhood Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes 5.
What's 'New' about the 'New' Reproductive Technologies? Renate Duelli Klein
6. Motherhood, Patriarchal Power, Alienation and the Issue of 'Choice' in
Sex Preselection Robyn Rowland 7. Transforming Consciousness: Women and the
New Reproductive Technologies Jalna Hanmer.