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Article: BODY BOUNDARIES, FICTION OF THE FEMALE SELF: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE ON POWER, FEMINISM, AND THE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES.
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Our bodies; ourselves; bodies are maps of power and identity.
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto," 1991
A common theme in the feminist literature on the reproductive technologies has been that their advent has disarticulated reproduction into its genetic, biological, and social aspects. [1] Certainly, with the arrival of gestational surrogacy in the mid-1980s, the splintering of what had been historically a "unified" and "natural" reproduction within a woman's body appears complete. Gestarional surrogates, implanted with the embryos of their couples, fulfill the strictly "biological," or, more accurately, the physiological aspect of reproduction, while ...