"I Desire to Suffer, Lord, because Thou didst Suffer": Teresa of Avila on Suffering [0.03%]
“主啊，你既曾受苦，我也愿受苦”——圣女 TERESA 论苦难
Noelia Bueno-Gómez
Noelia Bueno-Gómez
Teresa of Avila's desire for suffering cannot be interpreted as the mere passive assumption of a feminine sacrificial role. On the contrary, Teresa was able to transform her suffering into the incarnated performance of her relationship with...
Postmenopausal Motherhood Reloaded: Advanced Age and In Vitro Derived Gametes [0.03%]
绝经后母亲的重生：高龄与体外衍生配子
Daniela Cutas,Anna Smajdor
Daniela Cutas
In this paper we look at the implications of an emerging technology for the case in favor of, or against, postmenopausal motherhood. Technologies such as in vitro derived gametes (sperm and eggs derived from nonreproductive cells) have the ...
Carolyn McLeod
Carolyn McLeod
This paper addresses the likely impact on women of being denied emergency contraception (EC) by pharmacists who conscientiously refuse to provide it. A common view-defended by Elizabeth Fenton and Loren Lomasky, among others-is that these r...
Adoption, ART, and a re-conception of the maternal body: toward embodied maternity [0.03%]
收养、辅助生育技术与对母体身体的重构：一种具身化的母性概念之提倡
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman,Sally J Scholz
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
We criticize a view of maternity that equates the natural with the genetic and biological and show how such a practice overdetermines the maternal body and the maternal experience for women who are mothers through adoption and ART (Assisted...
Reproductive freedom, self-regulation, and the government of impairment in utero [0.03%]
子宫内的生殖自由、自我调节及政府管理
Shelley Tremain
Shelley Tremain
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claim...
Carolyn McLeod,Francoise Baylis
Carolyn McLeod
The feminist literature against the commodification of embryos in human embryo research includes an argument to the effect that embryos are "intimately connected" to persons, or morally inalienable from them. We explore why embryos might be...
Rosemarie Tong
Rosemarie Tong
In this commentary on Eva Feder Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency, I focus on Kittay's dependency theory. I apply this theory to an analysis of women's inadequate access to high-quality, cost-effective healthc...
Genetic counseling and the disabled: feminism examines the stance of those who stand at the gate [0.03%]
遗传咨询与残疾人：女权主义审视守门人立场
Annette Patterson,Martha Satz
Annette Patterson
This essay examines the possible systematic bias against the disabled in the structure and practice of genetic counseling. Finding that the profession's "nondirective" imperative remains problematic, the authors recommend that methodology d...
Sophia Isako Wong
Sophia Isako Wong
I argue that there is an important analogy between sex selection and selective abortion of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome. There are surprising parallels between the social construction of Down syndrome as a disability and the deeply ...
A Donchin
A Donchin
An exploration of (I) alternative perspectives toward recent innovations in reproductive technology: support for new techniques for the sake of the kind of feminist future they facilitate; unqualified opposition despite therapeutic benefit ...