Cultural conceptions : on reproductive technologies and the remaking of life /

What happens to prevailing beliefs about the uniqueness of individual life when life can be cloned? Or to traditional understandings of family relationships when a child can have up to five parents? These are some of the questions addressed by Valerie Hartouni in her consideration of the cultural ef...

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Autor principal: Hartouni, Valerie
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1997.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttth3v
Sumário:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Impaired Sight or Partial Vision? Tracking Reproductive Bodies; 2 Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse(s) in the 1980s; 3 Fetal Exposures: Abortion Politics and the Optics of Allusion; 4 Reproducing Public Meanings: In the Matter of Baby M; 5 Breached Birth: Anna Johnson and the Reproduction of Raced Bodies; 6 ""On Breeding Good Stock"": Reflections on Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve; 7 Replicating the Singular Self: Some Thoughts on Cloning and Cultural Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S.
  • Tu; v; w; z.