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• Title:New reproductive technologies and disembodiment : feminist and material resolutions / Carla Lam.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lam, Carla, author.
  
• Published/Created:Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
  

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  • Call Number: GN482.1 .L36 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: GN482.1 .L36 2015
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.
  Human reproduction--Social aspects.
  Women--Psychology.
  Feminist theory.
  
• Medical Subjects: Reproductive Behavior--ethnology
  Social Theory
  Feminism
  Women--psychology
  
• Description:160 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Theory, technology and society.
  
• Summary:With attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women's reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women's embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women's and men's reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways - a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts - this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse. A call to feminist political theory to re-remember the material dimensions of bodies and their philosophical significance, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, political and social theory and the study of science, technology and health.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781472437051 (hardback : alk. paper)
  1472437055 (hardback : alk. paper)
  9781472437068 (ebook)
  9781472437075 (epub)
  
• Contents:New reproductive technologies and disembodiment
  Resistors and embracers
  Equivocals
  Mary O'Brien and the feminist standpoint revisited
  Postconstructionist, new material feminisms : breaking feminist waves.