Queer potential? For the queerness of reproductive technologies from the perspective of materialistic Feminisms and Critical Disability Studies

The article develops a complex queer/feminist perspective on the techno-social thing - the ivf-embryo -, benefiting from critical impulses of disability studies work on new eugenics and from materialist feminists. It argues that a queer/feminist perspective of debates on new materialism, posthumanis...

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Published in:Feministische Studien 2012-01 (2), p.363-363
Main Author: Kalender, Ute
Format: Article
Language:ger
Subjects:
Citizenship
Eugenics
Feminism
Materialism
Physically Handicapped
Queer Theory
Raw Materials
Sexuality
Transsexuality
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Summary:The article develops a complex queer/feminist perspective on the techno-social thing - the ivf-embryo -, benefiting from critical impulses of disability studies work on new eugenics and from materialist feminists. It argues that a queer/feminist perspective of debates on new materialism, posthumanism and new ontologies does have to consider the human: in asking if there is the risk that queers could be addressed as regenerative labourers or by subjecting 'queer' embryos to selective practices. My contribution brings in the concept of raw material labour and tries to broaden questions of reproductive citizenship from a queer/transgender perspective. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0723-5186