Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women's Freedom
New edition
Under the guise of liberatory science, the biomedical establishment is using women's bodies as the biological laboratories of the future. In Women as Wombs leading feminist ethicist Janice Raymond's scathing analysis of high-tech biomedical reproductive techniques contributes groundbreaking insights into the raging debate over reproductive technology and its ethical, legal, and political implications. Raymond asserts that far from being liberatory issues of ‘choice’, these techniques – including in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and sex selection – are a threat to women’s basic human rights.
A tough brilliant mind at dance, a mind propelled by a passion for justice.
—Gena Corea, author of The Mother Machine
2019 | ISBN 9781925581874 | Paperback | 216 x 140 mm | 296 pp
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2019 edition
Introduction
1. The Production of Fertility and Infertility: East and West, South and North
2. Maternal Environments and Ejaculatory Fathers: New Definitions of Motherhood and Fatherhood
3. A Critique of Reproductive Liberalism
4. The Marketing of the New Reproductive Technologies: Medicine, the Media, and the Idea of Progress
5. The International Traffic in Women, Children, and Fetuses
6. International Human Rights, Integrity, and Legal Frameworks
Notes
Index
A radical feminist's call for an end to reproductive ... violence against women. Challenging ideas, expressed clearly and forcefully, that go provocatively against the grain.
—Kirkus Review
Both compelling and certain to be controversial ... it is hard to resist her conclusion that many reproductive experiments can represent another form of violence against women. Highly recommended.
—Library Journal
A strongly written, carefully reasoned critique of the reproductive liberalism that … lies behind current concepts of reproductive choice.
—K. Kaufmann, San Francisco Chronicle Review