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...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 783 - 805 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer 2009
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| Sumario: | 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. This disparity could well lead to the creation of a reproductive dystopia, where race- and class-influenced genetic technologies favor the privileged and the wealthy. |
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