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Originally published in 1984, when new reproductive technologies were just beginning to become part of the public discussion, this edition was published with a new preface in 1989. The Editors wanted to look carefully at how much real choice reproductive technologies offered to women. Genetic engineering, sperm banks, test tube fertilization, sex selection, surrogate mothering, experimentation in the so called 'third world', increased technological intervention in childbirth - were we taking pregnancy and the birth process out of the dark ages or into a terrifying 'brave new world'?
They ask who controls it? Who benefits? The technological machine grinds on, in headline-grabbing leaps or in quiet developments in research laboratories: but what are the implications for women worldwide? Still a huge industry today, this reissue can be read in its historical context.
List of contents
Acknowledgments. Preface to the 1989 Edition. Introduction. In the Beginning. A Yenga Tale
BarbaraNeely What Future for Motherhood? The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology
Barbara Katz Rothman Test-Tube Women Egg Snatchers
Genoveffa Corea. Test-Tube Babies and Clinics: Where Are They? Who Owns the Embryo
Rebecca Albury. Egg Farming and Women's Future
Julie Murphy. From Mice to Men? Implications of Progress in Cloning Research
Jane Murphy. Designer Genes: A View from the Factory
Shelley Minden. Inside the Surrogate Industry
Susan Ince.
To Have or Not to Have a Child An Interview with Mirtha Quintanales, from the Third World Women's Archives
Rita Arditti and Shelley Minden. Teenage Oppression and Reproductive Rights
Eleanor Trawick. Refusing to Take Women Seriously: 'Side-Effects' and the Politics of Contraception
Scarlet Pollock. Women as Targets in India's Family Planning Policy
Vimal Balasubrahmanyan. Calling the Shots? The International Politics of Depo-Provera
Phillida Bunkle. Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: A Reproductive Rights Analysis
Adele Clarke. Abortion, a Women's Matter: An Explanation of Who Controls Abortion and How and Why They Do It
K. Kaufman.
If You Would be the Mother of a Son Technology and Prenatal Femicide
Betty B. Hoskins and Helen Bequaert Holmes. If You Would be the Mother of a Son
Kukkum Sangari. Abortion of a Special Kind: Male Sex Selection in India
Viola Roggencamp A Long Overdue Feminist Issue: Disability and Motherhood Claiming All of Our Bodies: Reproductive Rights and Disabilities
Anne Finger. Born and Unborn: The Implications of Reproductive Technologies for People with Disabilities
Marsha Saxton. XYLO: A True Story
Rayna Rapp The Motherhood Market Personal Courage is Not Enough: Some Hazards of Childbearing in the 1980s
Ruth Hubbard. Reproductive Technologies: The Final Solution to the Woman Question?
Robyn Rowland Women Taking Control: A Womb of One's Own Children by Donor Insemination: A New Choice for Lesbians
Francie Hornstein. Doing it Ourselves: Self Insemination
Renate Duelli Klein. Equal Opportunity for Babies? Not in Oakland!
Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality. Who is Going to Rock the Petri Dish? For Feminists Who Have Considered Parthenogenesis When the Movement is Not Enough
Nancy Breeze. Taking the Initiative: Information versus Technology in Pregnancy
Maureen Ritchie. Regaining Trust
Ruth Holland and Jill McKenna. Through the Speculum
Carol Downer. Feminist Ethics, Ecology and Vision
Janice Raymond. A Womb of One's Own
Jalna Hanmer. The Courage of Sisters
Cris Newport. Glossary. Resources. Further Reading. Notes on Contributors. Index.
About the author
Rita Arditti
Dr
Renate Klein is a Swiss-Australian biologist and social scientist who has been a feminist women's health activist since the early 1980s. She was Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne until 2006. She is the (co) editor/(co) author of 19 books, among them
Theories of Women's Studies,
Test-Tube Women,
Infertility,
Radically Speaking and
Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation. Since 1991, she is also Director and Publisher at Spinifex Press.
Shelley Minden became concerned about the impact of reproductive technologies on women's lives while working in medical genetics laboratories in the 1970s. She has a master of science degree in biology and lives in Seattle, Washington.
