This Hauptseminar will introduce students to the growing scholarship within the anthropology of reproduction. In the first part, we will become familiar with key thinkers, research themes, and intellectual debates in the anthropology of reproduction. Engaging with ethnographic research, we will discuss how reproduction has become an object of study for anthropologists and how studying reproduction has contributed to theoretical and methodological innovations in the discipline. The second part of this Hauptseminar will deal with reproductive technologies including childbirth technologies, prenatal diagnostic technologies, contraception, abortion, and assisted reproductive technologies. We will discuss how these technologies have direct and indirect effects in many areas of social life, including the domains of kinship, marriage, family, gender, religion, biomedicine, and population demography. Thus, reproductive technologies are “good to think with.” Moreover, as reproductive technologies have evolved over time, so have the social, cultural, legal, and ethical responses to them. We will explore how reproductive technologies are being used and are changing lives around the globe since the introduction of oral contraceptives in the early 1960s. Throughout the course students will carefully assess the methods used by feminist ethnographers who conducted fieldwork about reproduction and reproductive technologies. We will also reflect on the value of field based anthropological inquiries to public policy debates. This key question will feature throughout the semester, as we read and discuss selected books and watch documentaries and films.