Past tense of reproduce, meaning to have created copies or duplicates of something. Can refer to biological reproduction or mechanical copying.
From Latin 're-' (again) and 'producere' (to bring forth), literally meaning to bring forth again. The term applies to both biological and mechanical creation of copies.
The word 'reproduction' applies equally to making babies and making photocopies, showing how we use the same conceptual framework for biological and technological copying. Before mechanical reproduction, all copies had to be made by hand, making each one unique despite being a 'reproduction'.
The term conflates women's biological reproductive capacity with creative/intellectual production, historically used to minimize or exclude women from non-biological domains of work and thought.
Use 'reproduced' for exact copying/replication (technical, biological). For human creative output, use 'created', 'authored', 'produced' to avoid conflation with reproduction.
["created","produced","generated","replicated"]
Distinguishing women's creative and intellectual contributions from reproductive roles was critical to feminist scholarship; language choice reinforces or resists this erasure.
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