Genetic essentialism
Race, class and the politics of reproduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2165731 |
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| Authors | Karyn Valerius (a 5 Cedar Avenue, East Setauket, NY, 11733, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 229-247 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Consumption Markets & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1025-3866 • E-ISSN: 1477-223X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10253866.1997.9670300 |
| OpenAlex | W2018325091 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
Because in vitro fertilization and related practices circumvent the role of sex in reproduction and create new biological and social relationships not anticipated by the conventional nuclear family, the public responses to these practices often express discomfort with their failure to reproduce normative social relations. In contrast, promotional materials for fertility treatments situate technologically assisted reproduction within conventional paradigms for reproduction. These materials focus on procreation as an exchange of genes and represent this exchange as a natural form of self expression. In so doing, they articulate a conservative biological determinism which reinscribes the race, class and sexual politics that inform what constitutes culturally validated generation
Biology · Class (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Normative · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Reproduction · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |