Beyond Conception: New Politics of Reproduction (Women in Society S.) - Hardcover

Spallone, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333435311 ISBN 13: 9780333435311

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Synopsis

"Beyond Conception" is a feminist critique of the new reproductive and genetic technologies whose impact has been most apparent since the birth of the first "test-tube" baby. The author finds that these technologies are not created in women's interest. Instead, they require the subordination of women to science. Patricia Spallone is co-editor of "Made To Order - The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress".

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Review

"International in scope, this book is a feminist response to the new reproductive technologies and the genetic engineering being used on women--test-tube' fertilization, surrogacy, embryo flushing, sex preselection, and artifical hormones. It is concerned with what these procedures mean for women and with the accountability of the medical scientists who have created the technology. Spallone argues that the result is the subordination of women to the interests of medical scientists, population planners, the family, and the burgeoning biotechnology industry."-Women in Action ?International in scope, this book is a feminist response to the new reproductive technologies and the genetic engineering being used on women--test-tube' fertilization, surrogacy, embryo flushing, sex preselection, and artifical hormones. It is concerned with what these procedures mean for women and with the accountability of the medical scientists who have created the technology. Spallone argues that the result is the subordination of women to the interests of medical scientists, population planners, the family, and the burgeoning biotechnology industry.?-Women in Action

About the Author

PATRICIA SPALLONE is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies, Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of York, England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333435311
• ISBN 13: 9780333435311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264