Women as wombs
It finally happened. Doctors are close to attempting a womb transplant. See this story in the New York Times. It seems that there are women who will resort to extreme measures in order to bear a child. There is so much wrong with this that one doesn’t know where to start so I ended up writing a whole book about women’s bodies. Let’s just start by saying that womb transplants and related technologies see women as breeder, their bodies as manufacturing plants and children as products for consumption. When woman is reduced to mother all women including mothers are diminished. If you are interested in this topic I recommend the book by Janice Raymond, Women as Wombs. I also discuss reproductive technologies in my book Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body.