About this Issue
This issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by Rebecca
Jordan-Young, brings together some of the most esteemed scholars whose
works tie analyses of reproductive technologies to frameworks of
reproductive justice. "Critical Conceptions: Technologies, Justice, and
the Global Reproduction Market" considers what kinds of reproductive
technologies are deployed by and for whom, and locates individual
decisions and choices within a global political economy that
aggressively reproduces relations of inequality based on race, class,
gender, sexuality and physical ability.
As Jordan-Young states in her introduction to the issue, though,
feminists have been visionaries as well as critics, long imagining how
reproductive technologies might be used to portend a queerly-shaped future, where
social justice guides biological and social reproduction, caring labors,
familial formations and affective bonds. This future, certainly already
in the making, requires us to acknowledge that our individual desires
and commitments around reproduction are inextricably linked to those of
others. In this recognition and in this important journal issue, we find
the ethical feminist practices and analyses that can transform
reproduction for the good of all.
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