Needles, tubes, and speculums are probing ever deeper into
women’s bodies, seeking a scientific understanding of the mystery of creation. Test-Tube Women is a feminist map to this new and largely foreign world of motherhood in the age of in vitro fertilization, sex selection, amniocentesis, surrogate mothering, and other rapidly expanding reproductive technologies. In 35 essays, studies, and first-person accounts, the authors collectively argue that the new reproductive technologies are an extension of men’s attempts to control women’s bodies and, further, are biased toward white upper-class eugenics.
This is important and insightful reading for anyone interested in how these technologies are changing our lives—which they are—
