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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cyborg babies : from techno-sex to techno-tots
by Robbie Davis-Floyd; Joseph Dumit, editors
Language: English
New York : Routledge, 1998.
358 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0415916038 ; 9780415916035
Summary: Explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. The text argues that in aspects of childhood from foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture.
Available: https://www.routledge.com/Cyborg-Babies-From-Techno-Sex-to-Techno-Tots/Davis-Floyd-Dumit/p/book/9780415916042
Achieving procreation : childlessness and IVF in Turkey
by Merve Demircioğlu Göknar
Language: English
New York : Berghahn, 2015. ©2015.
xii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781782386346 ; 1782386343
Summary: Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Göknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for — or against — having IVF.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GoeknarAchieving
Misconceptions : the social construction of choice and the new reproductive and genetic technologies
by Gwynne Basen; Margrit Eichler; Abby Lippman, editors
Language: English
Hull, Quebec : Voyageur Pub., 1993-1994.
2 volumes ; 18 cm.
ISBN: 0921842252 ; 9780921842255
Summary: Discusses "correcting" infertility, "curing" disease or "improving" women's health; while explaining how women from diverse activist and academic backgrounds challenge these claims.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Misconceptions-Construction-Reproductive-Genetic-Technologies/dp/0921842376
Sex in the future : the reproductive revolution and how it will change us
by Robin Baker
Language: English
New York : Arcade Pub., 2000.
xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1559705213 ; 9781559705219
Summary: Robin Baker, an expert on evolution and human sexual behavior turns his attention to the reproductive revolution that is happening around us. Baker explains the technologies of assisted reproduction that are currently available and those likely to become available as we proceed in the twenty-first century: from in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood to cloning, gamete banking, and novel ways of micromanipulating sperm and egg, testes and ovaries.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Future-Reproductive-Revolution-Change/dp/1559705213
