Synopses & Reviews
"Scholars already saturated with moral commentary on new reproductive arrangements are in for a stimulating surprise. For, this volume breaks new ground, scrutinizing their impact at a more penetrating level and challenging the terms of the dominant debate.... It should set a standard for further work and receive the attention of mainstream thinkers and policy makers that it so richly deserves." --Human Studies
"... a valuable contribution to the literature in an important and rapidly evolving area of law and applied ethics." --Ethics
"... virtually every essay is thought-provoking and well-informed, and together they address just the topics you'd want to see covered--as well as a few you might not have thought of." --Medical Humanities Review
"... extremely interesting reading for all those who are involved in, or wish to know more about, the moral, social and policy consequences of new reproductive technologies." --Biosocial Science
"This thought-provoking collection of essays addresses moral and legal questions revolving around modern human reproduction.... an invaluable resource for any family law practitioner." --The Women's Advocate
"Editor Callahan presents a fascinating look at the facts, facets, and legal effects of modern technology on reproduction.... A work that provides insight on all issues concerning reproduction." --Choice
"[The book] is a valuable contribution to the literature in an important evolving area of law and applied ethics." --Ethics
"... displays the richness of feminist scholarship. It points the way for a fuller appreciation of the varied voices of feminist analyses in many other areas." --Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
"... a comprehensive, compelling and carefully researched volume. This is applied feminist ethics at its very impressive best." --Journal of Medical Ethics
Essays address moral and legal quandaries related to human reproduction, adding to the feminist dimension of the public discussion of these issues, including: new complexities in contraception and abortion technologies; frozen embryos, unwed fathers, and the legal definition of parenthood; and the use of fetal tissue.
About the Author
JOAN CALLAHAN is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. She is the editor of Menopause: A Midlife Passage and Ethical Issues in Professional Life and the co-author of Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors's Preface: Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives
Part I: Reconsidering Parenthood
Introduction
1. Adoption as a Feminist Alternative to Reproductive Technology -- Joan Mahoney
2. Feminist Perspectives and Gestational Motherhood: The Search for a Unified Legal
Focus -- Rosemarie Tong
3. Listening to the Voices of the Infertile -- Barbara J. Berg
4. The Metamorphosis of Motherhood -- Patricia Smith
Part II: Prenatal and Postnatal Authority
Introduction
5. Choosing Children's Sex: Challenges to Feminism -- Helen B. Holmes
6. Frozen Embryos and "Fathers' Rights": Parenthood and Decision-Making in the Cryopreservation
of Embryos -- Christine Overall
7. As If There Were Fetuses Without Women: A Remedial Essay -- Mary B. Mahowald
8. Fathers' Rights, Mothers' Wrongs?: Reflections on Unwed Fathers' Rights, Patriarchy, and Sex
Equality -- Mary L. Shanley
Part III: Electing and Preventing Birth
Introduction
9. Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Lethal Injection in Late Abortion -- Joan C. Callahan
10. RU 486: Progress or Peril? -- Janice G. Raymond
11. Loving Future People -- Laura M. Purdy
Part IV: Prenatal and Preconceptive Harm
12. Collective Bad Faith: "Protecting" the Fetus -- Janet Gallagher
13. A Womb of One's Own -- Joan E. Bertin
14. The Discriminatory Nature of Industrial Health-Hazard Policies and Some Implication for Third-World
Women Workers -- Uma Narayan
Contributors
Index