دانلود کتاب سیاست رحم – تاریخچه کوتاهی از آینده تولید مثل انسان

Whenever people ask me what I am writing about, their reactions to my answer are invariably along the lines of: “What? What does politics have to do with the womb?” Or, with a certain awkwardness: “What? Politics meddles with the womb as well?” Most women (and men) appear to be unaware of the political status of our reproductive organ. This, perhaps, should not come as such a surprise, as we are taught gender roles since the day we are born. Isn’t having babies what women are supposed and want to do? Isn’t reproduction a private matter? How can it be a political issue? But it is.

Womb Politics may be reminiscent of the term Gender Politics, which is defined as the assumptions underlying expectations regarding gender difference in a society [and] an ideology based on such assumptions. This notion originated in the Gender Studies field in the 1970s. Gender Politics has been used to argue that issues such as spousal abuse or reproductive rights, considered private as opposed to public issues, “should be politicized” and considered as matters of public concern.1 However, I argue throughout this book that reproduction also considered a “private” issue is highly politicized and has been a matter of public concern since biblical times and possibly, before.