The future of human reproduction / edited by Christine Overall.

Toronto, Ontario : Women's Press, [1989]

279 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Christine Overall -- The politics of birth control in a reproductive rights context / Nikki Colodny -- The new -- and debatable -- reproductive technologies / Cynthia Carver -- Of woman born? how old-fashioned! -- new reproductive technologies and women's oppression / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- When is biology destiny? -- Thelma McCormack -- 1938-1988: fifty years of D.E.S. -- fifty years too many / Harriet Simand -- Donor insemination: the future of a public secret / Rona Achilles -- No relief until the end: the physical and emotional costs of in vitro fertilization / Linda S. Williams -- Delivering babies: contracts and contradictions / Somer Brodribb -- Small "p" politics: the midwifery example / Patricia O'Reilly -- Pregnancy as justification for loss of juridical autonomy / Sanda Rodgers -- Prenatal diagnosis: reproductive choice? reproductive control? / Abby Lippman -- The future of abortion in Canada: a legal view point / Sanda Rodgers -- The home birth alternative to the medicalization of childbirth: safety and ethical responsibility / Paul Thompson -- Reproductive technology and social policy in Canada / Deborah C. Poff -- Some minimal principles concerning the new reproductive technologies / Margrit Eichler -- Principles into practice: an activist vision of feminist reproductive health care / Vicki Van Wagner and Bob Lee -- Feminist ethics and new reproductive technologies / Susan Sherwin -- Conclusion / Christine Overall.