On Having an Own Child : reproductive technologies and the cultural construction of childhood

On Having an Own Child : reproductive technologies and the cultural construction of childhood 
by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
xxiv, 199 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9781855755451 ; 1855755459 
Summary: "This is the first book ever to consider in-depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI, etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people want children and the reasons for using reproductive technologies tend to start with the assumption that this is either simply a biological drive to reproduce or a socially instilled desire. This book uses psychoanalysis not to provide an answer in its own right, but as an analytic tool to probe more deeply the problems of these assumptions. The idea that reproductive technologies simply supply an 'own' child is questioned in this volume in terms of asking how and why reproductive technologies are seen to create this 'ownness'."--Jacket. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Having-Own-Child-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/0367325772
Subjects:

• Parenthood -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects
• Parenthood -- Social aspects

Reproducing Jews : a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel

Reproducing Jews : a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel 
by Susan Martha Kahn 
Language: English 
Durham : Duke Univ. Press, 2006. 
227 p. 
ISBN: 0822326019 ; 9780822326014 
Summary: There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health insurance and are available to all Israelis, regardless of religion or marital status. These phenomena are not the result of unusually high rates of infertility in Israel but reflect the centrality of reproduction in Judaism and Jewish culture. In this ethnographic study of the new reproductive technologies in Israel, Susan Martha Kahn explores the cultural meanings and contemporary rabbinic responses to artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, egg donation, and surrogacy. Kahn draws on fieldwork with unmarried Israeli women who are using state-subsidized artificial insemination to get pregnant and on participant-observation in Israeli fertility clinics. Through close readings of traditional Jewish texts and careful analysis of Israeli public discourse, she explains how the Israeli embrace of new reproductive technologies has made Jewish beliefs about kinship startlingly literal. Kahn also reveals how a wide range of contemporary Israelis are using new reproductive technologies to realize their reproductive futures, from ultraorthodox infertile married couples to secular unmarried women. As the first scholarly account of assisted conception in Israel, this multi-sited ethnography will contribute to current anthropological debates on kinship studies. It will also interest those involved with Jewish studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproducing-Jews-Cultural-Conception-Commodity/dp/0822325985/
Subjects: 

• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Israel
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Israel
• Human reproductive technology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism

Embodied progress : a cultural account of assisted conception

Embodied progress : a cultural account of assisted conception 
by Sarah Franklin 
Language: English 
London : Routledge, 2005. 
XII, 252 p. ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 0415067676 ; 9780415067676 
Summary: New reproductive technologies, such as in Vitro fertilization, have been the subject of intense public discussion and debate worldwide. In addition to difficult ethical, moral, personal and political questions, new technologies of assisted conception also raise novel socio-cultural dilemmas. How are parenthood, kinship, and procreation being redefined in the context of new reproductive technologies? Has reproductive choice become part of consumer culture? Embodied Progress offers a unique perspective on these and other cultural dimensions of assisted conception techniques. Based on ethnographic research in Britain, this study foregrounds the experiences of women and couples who undergo IVF, whilst also asking how such experiences may be variously understood. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Progress-Cultural-Assisted-Conception/dp/0415067669/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects

Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates : answering tough questions and building strong families

Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates : answering tough questions and building strong families 
by Diane Ehrensaft 
Language: English 
New York : Guilford Press, ©2005. 
xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 1593851790 ; 9781593851798 
Summary: If you need help having a baby, reproductive technology can supply the answer. But it also raises a host of questions that won’t arise until after the child is born: What will you say to “Where did I come from?” when the answer includes a donor or surrogate? Will knowing the truth about how you conceived to make your child love you less? Will having a baby with someone else strain your relationship with your spouse or partner? What will grandparents, family members, friends, and coworkers think? Dr. Diane Ehrensaft--a developmental and clinical psychologist who’s worked with families formed using assisted reproductive technology for more than 20 years--helps you anticipate the big questions and find solutions that are right for you and your loved ones. Dr. Ehrensaft offers information, support, and straightforward advice for coping with private worries, confronting public prejudices, and raising happy, healthy children. Single or married, straight or gay, anyone looking forward to the joys and challenges of building a family with the help of a donor or surrogate will discover a wealth of thought-provoking ideas and fresh insights in this sensitive, practical, and positive book. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Mommies-Daddies-Donors-Surrogates-Answering/dp/1593851332/
Subjects:

• Parenting -- Psychological aspects
• Surrogate motherhood -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects

Everything conceivable : how assisted reproduction is changing our world

Everything conceivable : how assisted reproduction is changing our world 
by Liza Mundy 
Language: English 
New York : Anchor Books, 2008. 
1 vol. (xx-412 p.) ; 21 cm. 
ISBN: 9781400095377 ; 1400095379 
Summary: Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species. Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. Using in-depth reporting and riveting anecdotal material from doctors, families, surrogates, sperm and egg donors, infertile men and women, single and gay and lesbian parents, and children conceived through technology, Mundy explores the impact of assisted reproduction on individuals as well as the ethical issues raised and the potentially vast social consequences. The unforgettable personal stories in Everything Conceivable run the gamut from joyous to tragic; all of them raise questions we dare not ignore. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Conceivable-Assisted-Reproduction-Changing/dp/1400095379/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects -- United States

Test tube families : why the fertility market needs legal regulation

Test tube families : why the fertility market needs legal regulation 
by Naomi R. Cahn 
Language: English 
New York : New York University Press, [2009]. 
VIII, 295 p. : tablas ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780814716823 ; 0814716822 
Summary: The birth of the first test-tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought and sold in a market that has few barriers to its skyrocketing growth. While ART has been an invaluable gift to thousands of people, creating new families, the use of someone else’s genetic material raises complex legal and public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety, eugenics, reproductive autonomy, identity, and family structure. How should the use of gametic material be regulated? Should recipients be able to choose the “best” sperm and eggs? Should a child ever be able to discover the identity of her gamete donor? Who can claim parental rights? 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Test-Tube-Families-Fertility-Regulation/dp/0814716822/
Subjects:

• Fertilization in vitro -- Law and legislation -- United States

Beyond expectation : lesbian/bi/queer women and assisted conception

Beyond expectation : lesbian/bi/queer women and assisted conception 
by Jacquelyne Marie Luce 
Language: English 
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010. 
xv, 278 p. 
ISBN: 9781442610088 ; 1442610085 
Summary: An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying to become a parent, Beyond Expectation draws on eighty-two narrative interviews conducted during the late 1990s in British Columbia. Jacquelyne Luce chronicles these women's experiences, which took place from 1980 to 2000, during a period that saw significant changes to the governance of assisted reproduction and the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents and same-sex partners. Beyond Expectation looks closely at the changing contexts in which women's experiences occurred and draws attention to complex issues such as 'contracting' relationships, mediating understandings of biology and genetics, and decision-making amidst various social, legal, and medical developments. Luce skillfully juxtaposes the stories of her interviewees with the wider public discourses about lesbian/bi/queer parenting and reproductive technology and highlights gaps in existing legislative reforms. Most importantly, Beyond Expectation foregrounds the lived experiences of lesbian, bi, and queer women as they negotiate kinship at the intersection of reproduction, technology, and politics. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Expectation-Lesbian-Assisted-Conception/dp/1442640634
Subjects:

• Lesbian mothers -- Canada -- Interviews
• Lesbian -- Family relationships -- Canada
• Reproductive technology -- Canada
• Lesbians -- Canada -- Social conditions
• Motherhood -- Political aspects -- Canada

God's laboratory : assisted reproduction in the Andes

God's laboratory : assisted reproduction in the Andes 
by Elizabeth F. S. Roberts 
Language: English 
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012. 
xxv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780520270824 ; 0520270827 
Summary: Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts’ intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God’s Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race, and history in the formation of Andean families. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Laboratory-Assisted-Reproduction-Andes/dp/0520270827/
Subjects:

• Medical anthropology
• Human reproductive technology -- Andes Region
• Human reproductive technology -- Ecuador
• Fertilization in Vitro -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church

Relatedness in assisted reproduction - families, origins and identities

Relatedness in assisted reproduction - families, origins and identities 
edited by Tabitha Freeman; Susanna Graham; Fatemeh Ebtehaj; Martin Richards 
Language: English 
Cambridge University Press, 2016. 
xi, 319 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9781316618028 ; 1316618021 
Summary: Assisted reproduction challenges and reinforces traditional understandings of family, kinship and identity. Sperm, egg and embryo donation and surrogacy raise questions about relatedness for parents, children, and others involved in creating and raising a child. How socially, morally or psychologically significant is a genetic link between a donor-conceived child and their donor? What should children born through assisted reproduction be told about their origins? Does it matter if a parent is genetically unrelated to their child? How do experiences differ for men and women using collaborative reproduction in heterosexual or same-sex couples, single-parent families or co-parenting arrangements? What impact does the wider cultural, socio-legal and regulatory context have? In this multidisciplinary book, an international team of academics and clinicians bring together new empirical research and social science, legal and bioethical perspectives to explore the key issue of relatedness in assisted reproduction. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Relatedness-Assisted-Reproduction-Families-Identities/dp/1107038286
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Relatedness (Psychology)
• Human reproductive technology

Politics of the womb : the perils of IVF surrogacy and modified babies

Politics of the womb : the perils of IVF surrogacy and modified babies 
by Pinki Virani 
Language: English 
Gurgaon : Penguin, 2017. 
372 p. 
ISBN: 9780143429104 ; 0143429108 
Summary: Among life s choices is to have children or remain childfree. Yet those who want a child and find themselves unable, live through the trauma of infertility cruelly attributed as their fault to undergo the tribulations of assisted reproductive technology. But how safe is aggressive Ivf, invasive Icsi, exploitative ovarian hyper-stimulation, and commercial surrogacy? Politics of the Womb proves that there can be broken babies and breaking mothers; it rips away the romanticism around uterus transplants, warns of genetic theft and designer babies, and points to the human element being sacrificed, as artificial reproduction uses, reuses and recycles the woman. Pinki Virani combines investigation with analysis to question those who lead the worldwide onslaught on the woman s womb in the name of babies, and squarely confronts what has become the business of baby-making by a chain of suppliers that manufactures on demand. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Womb-Perils-Surrogacy-Modified/dp/0670088722
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects

The right to know one's origins : assisted human reproduction and the best interests of children

The right to know one's origins : assisted human reproduction and the best interests of children 
by Juliet Ruth Guichon; Ian Mitchell; Michelle Giroux
Language: English 
Brussels : ASP, [2012]. 
352 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9789057182358 ; 9057182351 
Summary: This collection of essays addresses the interests and rights of donor-conceived people. The contributors shine light from many directions on the issues of secrecy and donor anonymity. Adults and children who have been donor-conceived offer their varied and sometimes emotion-rich perspectives; health scientists review the literature and assess the health risks of secrecy and anonymity; ethics experts discuss the history and ethics of the issues; and legal scholars consider international and domestic law, and formulate actionable proposals for legislative change. This book puts the child of assisted conception at the center. It makes a significant contribution to the debate about whether people who are donor-conceived should know the circumstances of their conception and the identity of their progenitors. 
Available: https://www.amazon.in/Right-Know-Ones-Origins-Reproduction/dp/9057182351/
Subjects:

• Children's rights
• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Social aspects -- Canada
• Children of sperm donors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada

Babies of technology : assisted reproduction and the rights of the child

Babies of technology : assisted reproduction and the rights of the child 
by Mary Ann Mason; Tom Ekman 
Language: English 
New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Press [2017]. 
xii, 240 pages ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 9780300215878 ; 0300215878 
Summary: Examines each aspect of assisted reproductive technology, from the oldest and still most widely used intervention--artificial insemination by sperm donor--all the way to the future of genetically modified human beings. Mason and Ekmann investigate frozen eggs, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and the demographics of who is participating in the assisted reproduction industry in the United States and internationally. They also identify the issues affecting children who are being born as a result of these current and advancing technologies, including health problems, identity confusion, legal status, and potentially superhuman traits and abilities. The authors argue that we need to protect our babies of technology by advocating for a basic International Code of Rights for Children of Assisted Reproductive Technology with principles that could be applied to established and evolving technologies. They also propose creating a federal administrative agency whose primary responsibilities would be monitoring assisted reproduction, instituting guidelines, and maintaining records of all procedures performed across the United States. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Babies-Technology-Assisted-Reproduction-Rights/dp/0300215878/
Subjects:

• Children of assisted reproductive technology
• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation
• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Children's rights

Reconfiguring reproduction : feminist health perspectives on assisted reproductive technologies

Reconfiguring reproduction : feminist health perspectives on assisted reproductive technologies 
by Sarojini N.; Vrinda Marwah
Language: English 
New Delhi : Zubaan, 2014. 
1 volume ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 9789383074525 ; 9383074523 
Summary: Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women’s bodies. Viewed by some as a technological quick-fix for infertility, ARTs create both challenges and opportunities, and responses to them have sought to balance questions of ethics, rights, and politics. With essays by eminent academics and activists, Reconfiguring Reproduction examines the ART industry by bringing a feminist health lens to bear on the experiences of women in countries such as Korea, Canada, the United States, Israel, Australia, India, and others. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reconfiguring-Reproduction-Perspectives-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/9383074523
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Feminist theory

Art of Making Children : the new world of assisted reproductive technology

Art of Making Children : the new world of assisted reproductive technology 
by Francois Ansermet 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
208 p. 
ISBN: 0367327511 ; 9780367327514 
Summary: This book explores the issues that surround medically assisted reproduction. It addresses the place of destiny, including how to think about individual destinies in an age of increasingly accessible gene sequencing paired with a growing link between procreation and prediction. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Making-Children-Reproductive-Technology/dp/1782204741/
Subjects: 

• Human reproductive technology

The assisted reproduction of race

The assisted reproduction of race 
by Camisha A. Russell 
Language: English 
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018. 
x, 189 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780253035820 ; 0253035821 
Summary: The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)―in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy―challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight into ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However, if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Race-Camisha-Russell/dp/0253035902
Subjects:

• Medical ethics
• Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- Ethics
• Surrogate mothers

Cross-cultural comparisons on surrogacy and egg donation : interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

Cross-cultural comparisons on surrogacy and egg donation : interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel 
by Sayani Mitra; Silke Schicktanz; Vikram Patel 
Language: English 
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]. 
xv, 399 pages 
ISBN: 9783319786698 ; 3319786695 
Summary: This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and cultural sciences, bioethics, law as well as psychology and provides critical-reflective comparative analysis of the socio-ethical factors shaping surrogacy and egg donation practices across these three countries. This book highlights the importance of a comparative perspective to?make sense? of controversies and transitions in this highly contested area of artificial reproductive technologies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Cultural-Comparisons-Surrogacy-Donation-Interdisciplinary/dp/3319786695
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Cross-cultural studies
• Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- India
• Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- Israel
• Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- Germany
• Oocyte donation
• Cross-cultural comparison

The pursuit of parenthood : reproductive technology from IVF to uterus transplants

The pursuit of parenthood : reproductive technology from IVF to uterus transplants 
by Margaret S. Marsh; Wanda Ronner 
Language: English 
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]. 
288 p. 
ISBN: 9781421429847 ; 1421429845 
Summary: Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without? In The Pursuit of Parenthood, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, Marsh and Ronner examine the unprecedented means―liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others―by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. In this volume, we meet the scientists and physicians who have developed these technologies and the women and men who have used them. Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to bring clarity and judgment to this complicated medical history, and reveals why the United States is still known as the "Wild West" of reproductive medicine. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Parenthood-Reproductive-Technology-Transplants/dp/1421429845/
Subjects:

• Infertility -- History
• Fertilization in Vitro -- History
• Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- History

Infertility and non-traditional family building : from assisted reproduction to adoption in the media

Infertility and non-traditional family building : from assisted reproduction to adoption in the media
by Rebecca Feasey
Language: English
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] ©2019.
ix, 276 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 3030177866 ; 9783030177867
Summary: This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Infertility-Non-Traditional-Family-Building-Reproduction/dp/3030177866/
Subjects:

• Infertility -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Adoption -- Social aspects
• Family planning in mass media

Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families

Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families 
by Diane Tober 
Language: English 
New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]. 
xv, 220 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 0813590787 ; 0813590795 
Summary: The 1990s marked a new era in family formation. Increased access to donor sperm enabled single women and lesbian couples to create their families on their own terms, outside the bounds of heterosexual married relationships. However, emerging "alternative" families were not without social and political controversy. Women who chose to have children without male partners faced many challenges in their quest to have children. Despite current wider social acceptance of single people and same sex couples becoming parents, many of these challenges continue. In Romancing the Sperm, Diane Tober explores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which "modern families" are created and regulated. Through tangible and intimate stories, this book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how ever-expanding assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Sperm-Shifting-Biopolitics-Families/dp/0813590795
Subjects:

• Artificial insemination -- Social aspects
• Families
• Single mothers
• Lesbian mothers
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects

Adoption and assisted reproduction in Germany : legal framework and current issues

Adoption and assisted reproduction in Germany : legal framework and current issues 
by Saskia Lettmaier 
Language: English 
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]. 
vi, 55 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9789004339811 ; 9004339817 
Summary: In Germany, as elsewhere, couples and individuals suffering from unwanted childlessness have two principal means to overcome it. One, adoption, has existed and been quite heavily regulated in Germany for centuries. The other, assisted reproduction, has only recently come into its own with advances in medical technology and has not yet been comprehensively dealt with by the German legislature. This monograph provides a survey of adoption and assisted reproduction as an alternative (non-coital) ways of establishing parent-child relationships in Germany. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Adoption-Assisted-Reproduction-Research-Perspectives/dp/9004339817/
Subjects:

• Adoption -- Law and legislation -- Germany
• Human reproductive technology - Law and legislation -- Germany

Random families : genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin

Random families : genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin 
by Rosanna Hertz; Margaret K. Nelson 
Language: English 
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]. 
296 p. : il. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780190888275 ; 019088827X 
Summary: The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families forms meaningful connections that blossom into longstanding groups and close friendships. This book is about unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new reproductive technologies, social media and the human desire for belonging. Random Families asks: Do shared genes make you a family? What do couples do when they discover that their children share half their DNA with a dozen or more other offspring from the same sperm donor? What do kids find in common with their donor siblings? What becomes of these chance networks once parents and donor siblings find one another? Based on over 350 interviews with children (ages 10-28) and their parents from all over the U.S., Random Families chronicles the chain of choices that couples and single mothers make from what donor to use to how to participate (or not) in donor sibling networks. Children reveal their understanding of a donor, the donor's spot on the family tree and the meaning of their donor siblings. Through rich first-person accounts of network membership, the book illustrates how these extraordinary relationships -- woven from bits of online information and shared genetic ties -- are transformed into new possibilities for kinship. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Random-Families-Strangers-Siblings-Creation/dp/019088827X/
Subjects:

• Kinship
• Families
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Children of sperm donors -- United States

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics 
edited by Marcia R. England; Maria Fannin; Helen Hazen
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ©2019. 
x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780815386193 ; 0815386192 
Summary: The sites, spaces, and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales--body, home, local, national, global--and movements across space. This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The chapters directly address global perspectives, the future of reproductive politics and state-focused approaches to the politicization of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The book provides up-to-date explorations on the changing landscapes of reproduction, including the expansion of reproductive technologies, such as surrogacy and intrauterine insemination. Contributions in this book focus on phenomenologically inspired accounts of women's lived experience of pregnancy and birth, the biopolitics of birth and citizenship, the material histories of reproductive tissues as "scientific objects" and engagements with public health and development policy. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Geographies-Politics-Routledge-International/dp/0815386192/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Social aspects
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology

Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology

Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology 
by Mali Mann 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
1 volume ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 0367325985 ; 9780367325985 
Summary: This book stems from the author's clinical experience working with infertile women in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It highlights the crucial importance of the integrative work of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts with reproductive medicine specialists in assisted reproductive technology (ART). 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalytic-Aspects-Assisted-Reproductive-Technology/dp/1780491964/
Subjects:

• Human Reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology - Psychological aspects
• Psychoanalysis

Assisted Reproduction : conceptions, controversies,and community sentiment

Assisted Reproduction : conceptions, controversies, and community sentiment 
by Alexandra E. Sigillo; Monica K. Miller
Language: English 
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 1498557910 ; 9781498557917 
Summary: Assisted reproductive technology (ART) allows people who are infertile the opportunity to conceive children and form much-desired families. Over the past few decades, the number of ART procedures conducted in the United States has steadily increased, in part affected by the growing number of women trying to conceive later in their reproductive lives. This demographic shift in baby-making has widened to include a variety of other people who experience social infertility, from single persons to same-sex couples. Media exposure and political attention to the use of ART have aroused public concern and controversy. In Assisted Reproduction, Alexandra E. Sigillo and Monica K. Miller explore how media, personal differences, societal influences, and psychological processes shape community sentiment toward ART and ART-related laws and policies. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, sociology, gender and women’s studies, communication studies, public health, and legal studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Conceptions-Controversies-Perspectives/dp/1498557910
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology in mass media

Transnationalising reproduction : third party conception in a globalised world

Transnationalising reproduction : third party conception in a globalised world 
by Róisín Ryan-Flood; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; 
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 
ix, 201 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9781138840713 ; 1138840718 
Summary: Third-party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor-conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family forms? Written by specialists from three different continents, Transnationalising Reproduction examines a broad range of issues concerning kinship and identity, citizenship and regulation, and global markets of reproductive labour; including gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. Indeed, this book seeks to highlight how reproductive technologies not only makes possible new forms of kinship and family formations but also how these give rise to new, ethical, political and legal dilemmas about parenthood as well as new modes of discrimination and a re-distribution of medical risks. It also thoroughly investigates the ways in which commodification of reproductive tissue and labour affects the practices, representations and gendered self-understandings of gamete donors, fertility patients and intended parents in different parts of the world. With a broad geographical scope, Transnationalising Reproduction offers new empirical and theoretical perspectives on third-party conception and demonstrates the need for more transnational approaches to third-party reproduction. This volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Health Care Sciences, Reproductive Technology, and Medical Sociology. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Transnationalising-Reproduction-Conception-Globalised-Routledge/dp/1138840718/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Surrogate motherhood
• Kinship

Assisted reproduction across borders : feminist perspectives on normalizations, disruptions and transmissions

Assisted reproduction across borders : feminist perspectives on normalizations, disruptions and transmissions 
by Merete Lie; Nina Lykke
Language: English 
London : Routledge, 2019. 
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780367350826 ; 0367350823 
Summary: Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend. This volume reflects on the state of the art of ARTs. From feminist perspectives, the contributors focus on contemporary political debates triggered by ARTs. They examine the varying ways in which ARTs are interpreted and practiced in different contexts, depending on religious, moral and political approaches. Assisted Reproduction Across Borders embeds feminist analysis of ARTs across a wide variety of countries and cultural contexts, discussing controversial practices such as surrogacy from the perspective of the global South as well as the global North as well as inequalities in terms of access to IVF. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, film studies, media studies, literature, art history, area studies, and interdisciplinary areas such as gender studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Across-Borders-Intersectionality/dp/1138674648/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Feminist theory

Conceiving family : a practical theology of surrogacy and self

Conceiving family : a practical theology of surrogacy and self by Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio 
Language: English 
Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]. 
 x, 219 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9781481310567 ; 1481310569 
Summary: Biology continues to be the most widely recognized determinant of the family in the United States and heterosexual intercourse the most common form of family creation. But what happens when children cannot be created in this way? Is it still possible to create a family? Surrogacy provides an alternative means of conception, not only to heterosexual couples who encounter infertility or reproductive loss, but also to single, same-sex, or transgender individuals who want to have children. However, surrogacy itself raises a number of concerns, arguably introducing as many difficulties as it solves. In Conceiving Family, Danielle Tumminio Hansen tackles the unnamed and unexamined problems surrounding surrogacy within a theological framework. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Conceiving-Family-Practical-Theology-Surrogacy/dp/1481310569/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Religious aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Surrogate motherhood -- Moral and ethical aspects

The reproductive body at work : the South African bioeconomy of egg donation

The reproductive body at work : the South African bioeconomy of egg donation 
by Verena Namberger 
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ©2019. 
xviii, 210 pages 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9780367026868 ; 0367026864 
Summary: The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates and research subjects, and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding calls for a comprehensive analysis of how the contemporary intersection of neoliberal capitalism and the life sciences - in short, the bioeconomy - capitalises on the body and its (re)productive capacities. The Reproductive Body at Work uptakes this challenge as it explores the relations between value production, labour and the body in one particular realm of the global bioeconomy: the South African bioeconomy of ‘egg donation’. It highlights different forms and dimensions of unacknowledged or precarious human labour that are constitutive for the procurement, brokering and circulation of oocytes as valuable resources. The analysis illustrates that the respective organisation of value and labour renegotiate what ‘the’ (re)productive body can do, which status and roles it is ascribed, which cultural and economic values it signifies and how it is experienced and enacted within a matrix of intersectional power relations. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Body-Work-Bioeconomy-Intersectionality/dp/0367026864/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- South Africa
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects -- South Africa
• Infertility -- Social aspects -- South Africa

The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs

The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs 
by Cathy Waldby 
Language: English 
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. 
viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9781478004110 ; 1478004118 
Summary: In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes-the reproductive cells specific to women. In 'The Oocyte Economy' Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews--with scientists, clinicians, and women who have either donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman--to trace how the history of human oocytes' perceived value intersects with the biological and social life of women. Demonstrating how oocytes have come to be understood as discrete and scarce biomedical objects open to valuation, management, and exchange, Waldy examines the global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients and the often younger and poorer donors. With this exploration of the oocyte economy and its contemporary biopolitical significance, Waldby rethinks the relationship between fertility, gendered experience, and biomedical innovation. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Oocyte-Economy-Changing-Meaning-Human/dp/1478004118/
Subjects:

• Ovum
• Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
• Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects
• Infertility -- Treatment -- Economic aspects

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India
by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Language: English
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1138610968 ; 9781138610965
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realized.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Fertility-Health-Reproductive-Politics-Re-imagining/dp/1138610968
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- India
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects

Mediated kinship : gender, race and sexuality in donor families

Mediated kinship : gender, race and sexuality in donor families 
by Rikke Anassen 
Language: English 
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. ©2019. 
198 p. 
ISBN: 9781351233439 ; 1351233432 
Summary: Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new families challenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Mediated-Kinship-Sexuality-Routledge-Sociology/dp/0815377959/
Subjects:

• Lesbian couples as parents
• Children of gay parents
• Single mothers