Reproductive Labor and Innovation

Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype

By: Jennifer Denbow

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Paperback | 1 November 2024

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In Reproductive Labor and Innovation, Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward techno-scientific 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 reproduction--such as digital care work platforms and noninvasive prenatal testing--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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"Provocatively excavating the inverse yet constitutive relationship between innovation and care work in the United States, Jennifer Denbow makes a compelling and urgent case for unpacking the ideological operation of neoliberalism's innovation-speak whilst pointing to the ways we can think about and value care work otherwise. This is a timely and important intervention." -- Catherine Rottenberg, author of * The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism *
"How are property law and legislation protecting 'innovation' entangled with reproductive justice? Drawing on an impressive range of feminist, disability, and other social theory, this book explains how the US cultural investment in technofixes has been expanding at the cost of social support and care. Any reader who wants to understand the relationship between neoliberal technosolutionism and its impact on social welfare should read this book." -- Kalindi Vora, author of * Reimagining Reproduction: Surrogacy, Labor, and Technologies of Human Reproduction *

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