Introduction

Abstract

Reproduction is a complex and ill-defined term. It has been variously described as an aspect of sexuality, motherhood, health, population, the family, work, and the restoration of labour power. This variety of definitions indicates a lack of precision and clarity. Reproduction has come to mean widely different things in demography, economics, medicine, psychology, anthropology, sociology, not to mention Marxism and feminism. Academic writings on the subject are simultaneously overlapping and fragmented along disciplinary lines, and there is also a problem in the way they are simplified for popular consumptiom. Thus there is no single agreed ‘reproductive paradigm’, although there is an emerging consensus among feminist academics on how not to do research on reproduction.’ The fancy academic terminology also tends to ignore the simple fact that, in the minds of most people, reproduction refers to procreation and having children.KeywordsArtificial InseminationCrude Birth RateAdvanced Industrial SocietyPregnancy WastageFeminist AcademicThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.