ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the women's paradoxical experiences of their reproductive bodies as ones of both vulnerability and power in patriarchal cultures. It explores the new reproductive technologies (NRT) are a third such moment because they alter women's reproductive consciousness by separating sex and reproduction, and reproduction and parenthood. The book reflects on the feminist science and technology studies as concerned with the notion of communities as knower and science, in particular, as that hegemonic, yet paradigm shifting community with which we each unavoidably engage as embodied individuals. It explores equivocal feminist responses to NRTs as the kind of significant mitigation of extreme positions that is conceptually mirrored in Mary O'Brien's biosocial theory and feminist postconstructionist theories. The phenomena of fitting or misfitting with the world, places the experience of vulnerability in the material situation, the spatiotemporal location of the event.
