Made to order : the myth of reproductive and genetic progress / edited by Patricia Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1987.

x, 254 pages ; 24 cm.

1st ed.

Includes index

International report -- Why do we need all this? A call against genetic engineering and reproductive technology -- Looking for mothers, you find only fetuses -- Fetalists and feminists: They are not the same -- Of women born, but for how long? The relationship of women to the new reproductive technologies and the issue of choice -- "Women want it": In vitro fertilization and women's motivations for participation -- From genetic counseling and genetic analysis, to genetic ideal and genetic fate? -- Patriarchal designs: The genetic engineering of human embryos -- Killing us softly: Toward a feminist analysis of genetic engineering -- IVF in Brazil: The story told by the newspapers -- Report of a survey of IVF Clinics in the USA

(contin.) Seizure of reproductive rights? A discussion on population control in the Third World and the emergence of the new reproductive technologies in the west -- Wheat for statistics: A case study of relief wheat for attaining sterilization target in Bangladesh -- Has the lesson been learned? The DES story and IVF -- Reproductive technology and the state: The Warnock Report and its clones -- Selective breeding and social engineering: Discriminatory policies of access to artificial insemination by donor in Great Britain -- A paradigm for regulation of the Biomedical Industry: Environmental protection in the United States -- Chernobyl and after -- Resistance and beyond: Conceiving a feminist science -- Resolution from the FINRRAGE conference, July 3-8, 1985, Vallinge, Sweden -- Statement from Third World Women of the FINRRAGE Conference, July 3-8, 1985, Vallinge,Sweden

Bibliography: p. 231-236