Women As Wombs : Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women's Freedom

A scathing analysis of high-tech biomedical reproductive techniques, this analysis provides groundbreaking insights into the debate over reproductive technology and its ethical, legal, and political implications. The study asserts that far from being liberatory issues of 'choice,' techniques such as in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and sex selection are a threat to women's basic human rights. Annotation Renowned scholar and feminist activist, Janice Raymond, delivers a passionate expose and uncovers the alarming ethical, legal and political implications of high-tech biomedical reproductive technologies. She argues that these technologies are neither liberatory nor an issue of reproductive "choice". Rather, they violate the integrity of women's bodies, perpetuate prostitution and an international trafficking in women and children, and are a threat to women's basic human rights. Women As Wombs is a scathing feminist analysis which contributes groundbreaking insights to the raging debate over reproductive technology CHAPTER ONE The Production of Fertility and Infertility: East and West, South and North......Page 32 CHAPTER 2 Maternal Environments and Ejaculatory Fathers: New Definitions of Motherhood and Fatherhood......Page 56 CHAPTER THREE A Critique of Reproductive Liberalism......Page 98 CHAPTER 4 The Marketing of the New Reproductive Technologies: Medicine, the Media, and the Idea of Progress......Page 126 CHAPTER FIVE The International Traffic in Women, Children, and Fetuses......Page 153 CHAPTER SIXInternational Human Rights, Integrity, and Legal Frameworks......Page 197 Technological reproduction is a case study in the politics of both fertil and infertility.