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Athenians' Uses of IVF Athenians' Uses of IVF
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With Nature: The Technological Making of Mothers and Children With Nature: The Technological Making of Mothers and Children
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Against Nature? Confronting Technological Anxiety Against Nature? Confronting Technological Anxiety
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Virility, Fertility, and Masculine Gender Proficiency Virility, Fertility, and Masculine Gender Proficiency
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Marketing Modern Motherhood Marketing Modern Motherhood
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Our Modernities, Our Selves? Our Modernities, Our Selves?
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5 Technologies of Greek Motherhood
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Published:February 2004
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Abstract
This chapter describes the notion of realized nature and takes up the question of what happens to a local metaphysics of gender and kinship when it encounters the imported medical technology of in vitro fertilization. It also discusses the fact that the nature Athenians call on to legitimatize their actions and choices is not quite the fixed, grounding nature whose logical demise Strathern diagnoses. For many Greeks, nature is not the simultaneous opposite and source of culture. Rather, the author describes Greek sociality—and gender construction—as an understanding of nature that is more metaphysical, active, and unpredictable than the Enlightenment version. “Proper” sexuality, the normative heterosexuality men and women are supposed to exhibit, is ideologically more a matter of learned, controlled behavior than raw essence.
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