ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows that the disembodiment is fundamentally androcentric since based on men's inability to conceive, gestate and give birth. It explores two seemingly oppositional forms of feminist discourse that have emerged in response to new reproductive technologies (NRTs) since the 1980s. The book examines feminists that constitute a third categorical response to NRTs which incorporates elements of both the embracing and resisting feminist responses while critiquing the oppositional and dualistic frameworks presented in each. It explains the potential feminist resolutions to a history of patriarchal dualism manifest in birth appropriation by theorizing the new material feminisms as a methodology that is trans-dualistic in the same sense of Mary O'Brien's biosocial reproduction. Both modern and postmodern approaches to reproduction are achieved through technoscientific reconfigurations of nature that intervene by going beyond the natural body.
