Susan Kennedy Assistant Professor - Santa Clara University |
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03.08.2022-29.08.2022
From Procreation to Parenthood - Simply a Matter of Convention?
- To analyze the current conventions and practices surrounding procreation and parenthood.
- To investigate the injustices associated with the hegemony of the natural nuclear family schema.
- To investigate how procreation fails to be characterized as an importantly gendered concept.
- To question how emerging reproductive technologies like fetal extraction procedures and artifical womb technology (ectogenesis) may function to serve, or complicate, goals to make procreation and parenthood more gender-egalitarian.