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={Greta Gaard},
  journal={Ethics \& the Environment},
  year={2010},
  volume={15},
  pages={103 - 129}
}
  • G. Gaard
  • Published 1 September 2010
  • Economics
  • 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… 
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