From Procreation to Parenthood - Simply a Matter of Convention?

• To analyze the current conventions and practices surrounding procreation and parenthood.
• To investigate the injustices associated with the hegemony of the natural nuclear family schema.
• To investigate how procreation fails to be characterized as an importantly gendered concept.
• To question how emerging reproductive technologies like fetal extraction procedures and artifical womb technology (ectogenesis) may function to serve, or complicate, goals to make procreation and parenthood more gender-egalitarian.