Gender Studies MA

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3809826.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A194943ad616ae1396e726a2f5e43bbba Julien S Murphy, "Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis" Hypatia: 1989 Sir David Napley "Women may elect to avoid the disfigurement of pregnancy, pain of childbirth, postpartum blues, and the occasional ineptitudes of obstetricians" p.67 "Must women reproduce? While this question is continually raised by individual women about their situations, it is rarely raised of women as a group. Should women, as a group, be liberated from the responsibility of child-bearing? Or, despite our liberation in many areas, does our ability to reproduce dictate a responsibility to ourselves and to future generations to be child-bearers?" p.68 "Neonatal technology has advanced to enable the maintenance of fetuses- some as early as sixteen weeks or as small as two hundred grams-in incubators, though it is quite costly. The longer a fetus can be ...

Ann Anagost - China's One Child Policy Chinese modernity connected to population policy Chinese eugenics aiming to improve nurture rather than nature - quality of services for a smaller population Develop and improve Chinese population through limiting births Population quality rather than quantity Smaller population is equated with a better quality Blood and genetics connected to eugenic Chinese policy - educated people rather than the peasants should be having children Chinese policy implies that scarce resources should not be spent on the lower-class children The policy was widely accepted by the urban intellectuals, because despite being state driven, it was also linked to China's economic development process - which is seen as arrested before it came to fruition Maoist period - rural masses will drive progression Post-Maoist - rural masses are hindering the progress of the nation Eugenics - not about 'pure blood' but rather about education, nurtur...

https://daily.jstor.org/on-the-history-of-the-artificial-womb/ " An artificial womb is taken as a signifier of a technologically stratified future, one in which we give up our last and most profound connection to evolutionary history, to our animal ancestors, and to each other."  " by freeing women from the necessity of pregnancy, sex and reproduction would be uncoupled, which would, he believed, drastically change the imbalance of power in society."  " The notion that women’s bodies were naturally sanctified was sexist. It excluded women from the benefits of science and technology." Why has ectogenesis not become possible yet? I could be because the social and political implications are too radical.  Shulamith Firestone: " Firestone was making a broader point about how science and politics interact, pointing out that the type of research that is funded, the type of technology that is developed, often serves the interests of those in power. ...

Erdman, Joanna N. (2015) Bioethics, Human Rights and Childbirth.  Health and Human Rights , vol. 17, no. 1 (June 2015), 43 – 51. "Women continue to die in childbirth because of how they are treated in facilities during labor and delivery, or because they are driven away from facilities for fear of mistreatment" p.44 "It was widely acknowledged that under international law, women have an enforceable right to survive pregnancy and childbirth." p.44 Respectful Maternity Care: The Universal Rights of Childbearing Women: "In citing the right to health, the Charter emphasizes dimensions of dignity, respect, non-coercion, and non-discrimination in health care delivery" p.45 "There is no empirical truth to a human rights norm or its violation, only the embodied experience of it. Human rights violations, the very definition of abuse and disrespect in childbirth, are thus morally less certain. The meaning women give to particular aspects of childb...

Chapter - what is happening in Slutwalk (April 2011 in Toronto - policeman criticised the way a young woman student was dressing)  What is being argued?  What kind of data sets can we infer from her argumentation?  Criticism of Slutwalk from neoliberal media and feminist critique  Neoliberal misrepresentation of women and Slutwalk - leading to rape apoligising Feminist intervention on the representation of the Slutwalk Print media is not the only hostile form of opinion Over-represntation of a small demographic - young, white, thin women  What is the meaning of the image that gets over-represented and how is it undermining the entire event  Why do organisers receive backlash  Saying one cause is better than another - essentialising difference and creates a hierarchy  Intersectional approach - what is more important seen from this position