–– RhetoricaScandinavica 79 · 2019 –– VIII –– Abstracts –– Abstract RhetoricaScandinavica, ISBN 1397-0534 No 79, 2019, pp 44-65 Publisher: Retorikförlaget AB Authors Charlotte Kroløkke, University of Southern Denmark, and Janne Rothmar Herrmann, Copenhagen University of Copenhagen. Title “Regulating Kinship. Feminist Legal Rhetoric as an Analytical Framework and Its Potential to Identify the Law’s Performative Effects” [“Slægtskabsreguleringer. Femi- nistisk retsretorik som analyseramme og dens potentiale for at identificere lovens performative effekter”]. Abstract Involuntary childlessness is a well-known phenome- non, and in Denmark, every twelfth child is born through the use of assisted reproduction. Denmark is currently positioned as one of the key global actors both as far as the use of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is concerned as well as within the global market in sperm and reproductive technologies. In this article, the authors develop a feminist legal rhetorical framework to discuss how the Danish law and ethical guidelines on adoption and assisted reproduction rhetorically produce different master plots on “natural,” “artificial,” and “monstrous” forms of kinship. The authors conclude with a discussion of the potential that a feminist legal rhetorical framework holds, including its ability to analyze how rhetorical figures and metaphors legitimize certain types of kinship as well as the ability to raise new and provo- cative questions related to gender equality within the law. Keywords feminist legal rhetoric, assisted reproductive technologies, reproductive law, critical adoption studies, feminist rhetoric.