Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Cult Health Sex. 2010 Feb;12(2):139-52. doi: 10.1080/13691050902912767.
This paper highlights a number of theoretical issues relevant to this special issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality on the quality of offspring, including gender selection, ecofeminism, eugenics, reproductive agency, moral pioneering and reproductive pragmatism in China, India and Japan. First, it discusses various approaches to choice in sex selection, focusing on an instrumentalist and an ecofeminist approach. Second, it discusses issues of reproductive choice in the light of various concepts of eugenics and power, which have been used to characterise the relationship between the state, the individual and prenatal genetic testing. Third, it queries Foucault's notion of biopower in relation to reproductive agency. In reviewing the evidence, the chapter raises questions about how women and parents in Asian societies can be understood in terms of 'reproductive pragmatism', 'empowerment' and/or 'moral pioneering' when faced with the use of new reproductive technologies in modern societies.
本文重点讨论了与文化、健康与性特刊中有关后代质量的几个理论问题，包括性别选择、生态女性主义、优生学、生殖代理、中国、印度和日本的道德开拓和生殖实用主义。首先，本文讨论了性别选择中的各种选择方法，重点介绍了工具主义和生态女性主义方法。其次，本文讨论了生殖选择问题，着眼于优生学和权力的各种概念，这些概念被用来描述国家、个人和产前基因测试之间的关系。第三，本文质疑福柯的生物权力概念与生殖代理之间的关系。在审查证据时，该章提出了一些问题，即当面对现代社会中新的生殖技术的使用时，亚洲社会中的妇女和父母如何能够被理解为“生殖实用主义”、“赋权”和/或“道德开拓”。
