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New Reproductive Technologies, Women's Health and Autonomy: Freedom Or Dependency

Date:  
2000
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Publisher: 
Sage Publications
Place of Publication: 
Thousand Oaks, CA
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This book examines the new technologies which intervene in the process of human reproduction in three areas: contraception; assisted reproduction; genetics and prenatal diagnosis. The author clarifies that technologies in these categories can and do overlap. She discusses the implications for: women′s health and autonomy; the roles of women and men and the reproduction of gender relations; and the politics of reproduction. (Publisher)