ABSTRACT
After the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in the UK in 1978, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) attracted a great deal of interest from researchers within the cultural and social sciences, particularly those with feminist research perspectives. From feminist viewpoints, the introduction of ARTs has posed new questions and dilemmas. A decade earlier, Shulamith Firestone had envisioned a feminist future where,
The reproduction of the species by one sex for the benefit of both would be replaced by (at least the option of ) artificial reproduction: children would be born to both sexes equally, or independently of either, however one chooses to look at it.
