ABSTRACT
One of the problems with radical feminist theory has been to look at patriarchy as a strong, monolithic and never changing block of power: men will be men. This view is understandable, as we first had to grasp the main structure of our oppression — to re-invent patriarchy so to speak from a feminist viewpoint — after history and the social sciences had taught us at school and university that personal forms of dependency had vanished with the bourgeois revolution. Reproduction policy deals with several aspects of women’s lives: the services women produce for patriarchy and the welfare state, for example servicing the adult male and rearing and caring for children, as well as women’s biological function as the potential bearer of children. The new feminist movement has put body politics and reproduction politics in the heart of its battle.
