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Dear Sir/Ms,
could you please circulate this reminder?
many thanks for your help,
Dr. Ofra Koffman
Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries Research (CMCI)
King's College London
Room 8D, Chesham Building, Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
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apologies for cross-posting
Life Cycles Seminar Series
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, London WC1E
Tuesdays, 5.15 p.m, Pollard room
08/02/2011, 5.15 p.m, Prof. Veronique Mottier (Cambridge) ‘Feminism and New Reproductive Technologies’
This talk will examine the role and impact of new reproductive technologies on current politics of the body. Whereas practices such as abortion and contraception have been primarily considered as individual technologies, and their access framed in terms of women’s individual rights, in more recent years, the emergence of new reproductive technologies has given rise to increasingly medicalised public debates questioning the scope for individual choice. I will explore early feminist responses to such developments, ranging from the early years of second wave feminism when Firestone famously suggested that the problematic linking of woman and nature could be dissolved through artificial reproduction and contraception, and that technology would free women from the constraints of motherhood; to more sceptical views of the potential benefits of new reproductive technologies by authors such as Stanworth who feared that those in control of reproductive technologies would gain ‘unprecedented control’ over motherhood itself. Against the backdrop of such early feminist debates, I shall examine current problematisations of reproductive technologies which no longer tend to centre on whether these are intrinsically ‘good’ or ‘bad’, to focus instead on their gendered effects and implications for individual and collective agency - including effects on gay and lesbian politics.
Prof. Véronique Mottier is Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge. She is Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Theory and has published widely in the area of sexuality, feminism and the politics of reproduction.
We usually go for a drink and a meal afterwards.
ALL WELCOME
Convenors
Dr Ofra Koffman (King’s College London) [log in to unmask]
Dr Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich)
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Dr Leonard Schwarz (University of Birmingham)
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