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

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

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

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

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

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