Vortrag: Feminist critique of reproductive technologies

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Titel: Feminist critique of reproductive technologies
Beschreibung: "New reproductive technologies are of major interest to feminist critique since the second half of the 20th century. After feminist concerns had already been articulated by social movements they also found their way to academic discourses (Nave-Herz 1997). Using a historical review of important developments in feminist studies since the 1960s, I aim to address an elementary problem of critical research: A choice is to be made whether or not to engage in collaborative research. The history of feminist critique of new reproductive technologies provides an instructive case to trace scholarly choices between fundamental opposition and incremental improvement. I begin my historical review with the powerful social movements of women during the 1960s. Women demanded equal rights, questioned traditional role models, promoted the right to define their sexual relationships in whatever way, called for equal access to resources (job market, health care etc.), and insisted on protection against domestic violence. Most notably feminist activism fought for the legalisation of abortion. By the mid 1970s, feminist efforts have successfully established the right to decide over their own body in many Western countries (UK: 1968, USA: 1973, Austria: 1974, Germany: 1974/1976). It is remarkable that reproductive technologies, developed in the late 1960s, have already been broadly applied in medical practice since the mid1970s, but academic feminist critique of these technologies has started with a delay of over ten years. Only in the 1980s, the claims of the feminist movement have entered academic discourse. Now women made experiences highly affecting their own lives subject to academic scrutiny (Schwartz-Cowen 2008). At this time the implications of new reproductive technologies (IVF, surrogacy, and prenatal testing) moved to the centre of feminist critique (e.g. Gena Corea 1985).
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Veranstaltung: EASST Conference 2010: Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social (Trento)
Datum: 03.09.2010
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Daniela Freitag
Daniela.Freitag@aau.at
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