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Using Arendt and Heidegger to Consider Feminist Thinking on Women and Reproductive/ Infertility Technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Maren Klawiter
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Abstract

Modern technology and gender relations are deeply intertwined. There has yet to emerge, however, a feminist analysis of modem technology as a phenomenon and this has inhibited the development of a consistent feminist response and theory regarding infertility/reproductive technologies. After taking a look at the character of the ongoing debate surrounding reproductive/infertility technologies, this paper considers how the contributions of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger might add some further insight to the debate and aid in the effort to develop such a feminist framework.

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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Fall 1990 , pp. 65 - 89
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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