What science does to gender, what gender does to science: about medically assisted reproduction

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron.
Each 30 minutepresentationis followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Abstract

Drawing on classic theoretical and empirical works in the field of Science and Technology Studies and feminist science criticism, as well as personal contributions and research published or in lecture, I propose to examine what transformations in the order of science and gender relations do to medical knowledge and practices of reproduction. And, symmetrically, how certain transformations in medical and biomedical reproductive knowledge and practices relate to, accompany and produce transformations in the social and gender order.

Delphine Gardey

Historian and sociologist Delphine Gardey has been a full professor at the Institute of Gender Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Geneva) since 2009, which she directed until 2017. She has been a fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut for the History of Science (Berlin), a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin) and the Institut des études avancées (Paris), and a visiting professor at EHESS (Paris) and Ochanomizu University (Tokyo). Specializing in the fields of gender studies and science and technology, she has contributed to the history of women and gender in the West ; the sociology of technology ; the history of information societies ; the anthropology of writing ; the history of parliamentarianism, as well as to studies linking gender, sexuality, the body and biomedicine around questions of reproduction. Her research on reproduction has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Maurice Chalumeau Foundation and the Boninchi Foundation. Delphine Gardey is the author of four monographs and over sixty scientific articles and chapters ; co-editor of five books and six special issues.