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Gendered Eugenics and the Problematic of Free Market Reproductive Technologies: Sperm and Egg Donation in the United States

2012-03-01

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Emerging reproductive technologies raise bioethical dilemmas for feminist theory and practice. While they have opened doors to alternative family formation, they have also perpetuated new forms of stratified reproduction. This article explores this dilemma through a study of the sperm banking and egg donation industries in the United States, arguing that free market reproductive choice has produced a form of gende...

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Literature Corpus work: da61f150-e9ff-576f-84e6-dbf914ce7db8
DOI: 10.1086/662964

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