Technology and Reproduction in a Cooperative Culture

本项目是美国国家科学基金会妇女研究机会项目的研究计划资助项目。这笔相对较少的资金将允许莱斯大学的一名研究人员在西班牙巴斯克省进行一个试点项目。这项研究将研究一个寻求介于社会主义和资本主义之间的完全工业化生活方式的合作社区的成员如何解释影响怀孕和生育的技术的新发展。生物医学技术通常基于一种性别关系模式，即男性医生优于女性患者，但合作社的意识形态是平等主义的。计划拨款将允许PI访问实地，建立联系，进行初步访谈和参与者观察，以便她明年准备一份全面的研究计划。这项研究很重要，因为这种小型试点项目使女性研究人员能够准备更具竞争力的提案，并获得宝贵的研究经验。

This project is a Research Planning Grant in the Research Opportunities for Women program at the National Science Foundation. The relatively small amount of funds will allow a researcher from Rice University to do a pilot project in a Basque province of Spain. The research will study how members of a cooperative community, which seeks a fully industrialized life style intermediate between socialist and capitalism, interpret new developments in the technology affecting pregnancy and birth. The biomedical technologies are usually based on a model of gender relations with male physicians dominant over female patients, yet the ideology of the cooperative is that of egalitarianism. The planning grant will allow the PI to visit the field site, establish contacts, and do preliminary interviewing and participant observation to allow her to prepare a full-scale research proposal next year. This research is important because such small pilot projects allow female researchers to prepare more competitive proposals and gain valuable research experience.