New Reproductive Techniques, Gender and Parenting
Avec le soutien de la fédération de recherche RING, du séminaire interdisciplinaire sur le genre de l'ISH de Lyon et du centre Louise Labé.
In recent years, major technical advances have led to the
development of new reproductive techniques (NRT) which pose a
potential challenge to the social order of reproduction in terms of
both gender order and the prevailing parenting model. Yet technical
advances are also the product of the gender order and of the
parenting model. They are far from gender-neutral. At the same
time, they are as much a response to new demands for parenthood as
an instigator of such demands. The aim of this conference is to
examine the interaction between reproductive techniques, gender
dynamics and parenting models. The question will be addressed from
sociological, demographic and anthropological viewpoints, but
ethical and legal aspects will not be covered.
The conference is organized around the following topics:
- The sociological and demographic challenges posed by new reproductive techniques in the trans-national arena
- New reproductive techniques and gender dynamics
- New reproductive techniques and parenthood
- New reproductive techniques and LGBT parenting