![]() Rather, it is said to be breathing new life into a dying institution and confirming its logic. Instead, I want to take up one aspect of Bernard’s argument, namely, that the opening of the family to those who have previously been excluded – primarily through the possibilities enabled by new reproductive technologies, but also through the legalization of same-sex marriage – does not represent a threat to the family, as some conservatives have imaged. Silvia Federici has argued that “t is important to affirm the labour character of these processes, also to dispel the myth that surrogacy is a ‘gift’ and an act of generosity towards the couple that cannot have children he new reproductive … Continue readingīecause these issues have been addressed in detail by others, I will largely leave them to one side here. ![]() 6 Robert Cole’s New York Times review of Elizabeth Kane’s Birth Mother: The Story of America’s First Legal Surrogate Mother quotes Kane as insisting that “wealthy men are taking advantage of women from lower-middle-income families”. Along with all those bodies … Continue reading And, with reference to the diary published by Elizabeth Kane, described as “he first commercially-brokered surrogate mother”, he gestures towards the forms of exploitation and the hierarchies of power that are often at stake. That is, it is not possible through biopenis-biovagina penetration with ejaculation. 5 Preciado argues that: “For homosexuals, some transsexuals (those in relationships in which both partners produce only spermatozoa or only ova), some heterosexuals (those whose reproductive cells cannot effect genetic recombination without assistance), asexuals, and some functionally diverse people, recombining genetic material is not possible through a genital assemblage. He notes the exclusion of certain individuals and relationship forms from access to reproductive rights and technologies, ensuring that heterosexual, dyadic, stable relationships (for some) continue to “enjoy the special protection of the state”. Cold War investment in sex and sexuality focused research, the emergence of post-Fordist forms of production, and what Michel Foucault described as ‘biopolitical’ systems of social control – “the discovery (or invention, depending on the degree of biocultural constructivism we are comfortable with) of hormones, genes, and cellular reproductive … Continue reading Preciado has argued: “In the second half of the twentieth century” – amidst these social upheavals, and in the context of U.S. Alexandra Kollontai, … Continue reading His article explores the temporal coincidence between “the decisive breakthroughs in the history of reproductive medicine” and “the social upheavals” of the 1960s. 3 The relationship between the family and the capitalist mode of production has been addressed by socialist feminists from Alexandra Kollontai’s 1921 “Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations”, over Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James’ seminal contribution to the domestic labour debates of the 1970s and 80s (which became a founding document of the Wages for Housework Campaign), through to much more recent work, like that of Cinzia Arruzza. Among other things, social reproduction includes how food, clothing, and shelter are made available for immediate consumption, the ways in which the care and socialization … Continue reading He addresses the ways that the emergence of “a liberal, capitalistically organized market economy” played a role in producing the modern form of the (heterosexual nuclear) family and its ideological veneration. They write that “feminists use social reproduction to refer to the activities and attitudes, behaviors and emotions, responsibilities and relationships directly involved in the maintenance of life on a daily basis, and intergenerationally. 2 Barbara Laslett and Johanna Brenner provide one influential definition of this term. touches – in some cases very briefly and in others at some length – on many of the key issues at stake in debates around the politics of (social) reproduction. Andreas Bernard’s article, Making Babies: New Reproductive Technologies and the Structure of the Family 1 Andreas Bernard, “Making Babies: New Reproductive Technologies and the Structure of the Family”, s pheres: Journal for Digital Cultures, 6, 2020.
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