The Assisted Reproduction of Race (eBook)

Camisha A. Russell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
200 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03593-6 (ISBN)

Infos

1.This book is an extremly timely exploration of race and Assisted Reproductive Technology.

2. It offers an unusual perspective on the history of race, focused on technology and draws connections between current Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Eugenics.

3. Within the field of philosophy this book gives feminist views on race, reproduction, and technology.

---

The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)—in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy—challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world.

Autor

Camisha Russell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From What Race Is to What Race Does

Overview

Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Critical Philosophy of Race

The Debate over the "Reality" of Race

Nature, Culture, or Politics?

Description of Chapters

1. Reproductive Technologies are Not "Post-Racial"

Beyond the "Bioethical" Approach

Whose Progress?

The "Problem" of Infertility

Reproducing Inequalities

Race and the "Natural"

Conclusion

2. Race Isn't Just Made, It's Used

Race as Technology

Heidegger's Essence of Technology

Foucault's Focus on Technologies

Conclusion

3. A Technological History of Race

Backdoor to Eugenics?

The Technological Science of Race

Kant's Scientific Concept of Race

Race as Envisioned and Purposive

Race as Producible and Produced

Race, Heredity, and Eugenics Proper

A Note on Heidegger

Conclusion

4. "I Just Want Children Like Me"

Putting Race to Work

Race, Blood, and American Kinship

Denying Common Origins—The American Polygenists

Discouraging Intimacy and Disallowing Kinship

Separation After Slavery

The "Blood" in our "Genes"

Conclusion

5. Race and Choice in the Era of Liberal Eugenics

The Neo-Liberal Regime of Truth

Technologies of the Self

The Personal and the Political in Assisted Reproduction

Technologies of the Self as Technologies of Race

Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2018
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: American Kinship • Animal breeding • Blood metaphors • Commercial surrogacy • critical philosophy of race • depoliticizing • donor gametes • Egg Donation • Eugenics • feminist bioethics • fertility patients • Foucault • Gametes • Gestational Surrogacy • Heidegger • history of race • Infertility • Intersectionality • kinship • liberal eugenics • Metaphysics of Race • naturalizing narratives • Neoliberalism • old eugenics • Philosophy • Philosophy of Race • Philosophy of Technology • Political • Politics • polygenist discourse • Polygenists • Power • privacy • Privatization • proxy for kinship • Race • racialized agenda • reproductive technology • Reprogenetics • Science and Technology Studies • Segregation • social constructivism • Sperm donation • Technologies of the self • Transnational Surrogacy • United States • whiteness
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03593-7 / 0253035937
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03593-6 / 9780253035936