• DOI:10.2979/ETE.2010.15.2.103
Corpus ID: 144393726

Reproductive Technology, or Reproductive Justice?: An Ecofeminist, Environmental Justice Perspective on the Rhetoric of Choice

@article{Gaard2010ReproductiveTO,
  title={Reproductive Technology, or Reproductive Justice?: An Ecofeminist, Environmental Justice Perspective on the Rhetoric of Choice},
  author={G. Gaard},
  journal={Ethics & the Environment},
  year={2010},
  volume={15},
  pages={103 - 129}
}

G. Gaard

Published 2010

Sociology

Ethics & the Environment

This essay develops an ecofeminist, environmental justice perspective on the shortcomings of “choice” rhetoric in the politics of women’s reproductive self-determination, specifically around fertility-enhancing technologies. These new reproductive technologies (NRTs) medicalize and thus depoliticize the contemporary phenomenon of decreased fertility in first-world industrialized societies, personalizing and privatizing both the problem and the solution when the root of this phenomenon may be… CONTINUE READING

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