Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?

The writer discusses race and class differences affecting the availability of new reproductive technologies for women. While women of color are not supported by public funding to have a second baby with the help of reproductive technologies, rich white women can have multiple embryos implanted. Th...

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Publicado en:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 783 - 805
Autor principal: Roberts, Dorothy E.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Summer 2009
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