Reproductive Labor and Innovation
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Reproductive Labor and Innovation

Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reproductive Labor and Innovation

Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype

About this book

In Reproductive Labor and Innovation, Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technoscientific innovation in contemporary American life often comes at the expense of the care work and reproductive labor that is necessary for society to function. Noting that the gutting of social welfare programs has shifted the burden of solving problems to individuals, Denbow argues that the aggrandizement of innovation and the degradation of reproductive labor are intertwined facets of neoliberalism. She shows that the construction of innovation as a panacea to social ills justifies the accumulation of wealth for corporate innovators and the impoverishment of those feminized and racialized people who do the bulk of reproductive labor. Moreover, even innovative technology aimed at reproductionā€”such as digital care work platforms and noninvasive prenatal testingā€”obscure structural injustices and further devalue reproductive labor. By drawing connections between innovation discourse, the rise of neoliberalism, financialized capitalism, and the social and political degradation of reproductive labor, Denbow illustrates what needs to be done to destabilize the overvaluation of innovation and to offer collective support for reproduction.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Othering Reproduction: Neoliberalism and the Innovation/Reproduction Binary
  5. 1. Contextualizing the Aggrandizement of Innovation: Coloniality, Labor, and Capacity
  6. 2. Children as Human Capital, Reproductive Labor, and the Logic of Self-Entrepreneurialism
  7. 3. Investing in the Curative Imaginary: Biotechnology, Disability, and Reproductive Futures
  8. 4. Neoliberal Eugenics as the Fertility Frontier of Biocapital: Optimizing Baby-Making in Catastrophic Times
  9. Epilogue: Pandemic Politics and the Repoliticization of Reproductive Labor
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index