How will the ability to manipulate human reproduction change our social world and the relationship between the sexes? Taking an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to gender and reproductive technology, Robyn Ferrell examines this question in the light of feminist theories of sexual equality and sexual difference, arguing that technology itself can be seen as a kind of reproduction. Invoking a concept of reproduction that understands it as generic, Ferrell asserts that in any reproduction, something is produced of a kind that was there before and yet that is also new. Technology is therefore generically reproductive, since it produces new matter of the same kind. In addition to key figures in French feminism, Ferrell draws from psychoanalysis and contemporary continental thinkers ranging from Heidegger to Haraway.
Author(s): Robyn Ferrell
Series: SUNY Series in Gender Theory
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 175
Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 0791467538......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1. The Maternalin Its Natural Habitat......Page 16
2. Brave New World......Page 36
3. Reproducing Technology......Page 52
4. Conceiving of Feminism......Page 64
5. Feminism Is a Kind of Time......Page 80
6. The Lore of the Father......Page 100
7. The Figure of the Copula......Page 120
8. The Body as Material Event......Page 144
9. The Technology of Genre......Page 160
Bibliography......Page 178
F......Page 188
S......Page 189
Z......Page 190
