ISBN:
9781137267122
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Series Statement:
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Reframing Reproduction : Conceiving Gendered Experiences
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉How do rapid social and technological changes shape reproductive realms today? This book considers the complex choices, anxieties and challenges that come alongside postmodern reproduction for women and men in the West. Topics include surrogacy, fatherhood, sperm banking, egg donation, contraception, breastfeeding, and postpartum body image
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Conceiving of Postmodern Reproduction; Part I: Contested 'Choices' and Challenges; 1 Towards a More Inclusive Framework for Understanding Fertility Barriers; 2 Constructions of the ''Best Interests of the Child'' in New South Wales Parliamentary Debates on Surrogacy; 3 ''Diseases'', ''Defects'', ''Abnormalities'', and ''Conditions'': Discursive Tensions in Prenatal Screening; 4 The Limits of ''Choice'': Abortion and Entrepreneurialism
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Gaps in Post-Birth Care in Neoliberal Times: Evidence from CanadaPart II: Reproductive Bodies and Identities; 6 Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment; 7 Picturing Postpartum Body Image: A Photovoice Study; 8 ''My Doctor Told Me I Can Still Have Children But … '': Contradictions in Women''s Reproductive Health Experiences after Spinal Cord Injury; 9 Taking a Long View of the ''Right Time'' for Fatherhood; 10 Anticipating and ''Experiencing'' Birth: Men, Essentialisms, and Reproductive Realms; Part III: The (Global) Reproductive Marketplace
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Putting ''Daddy'' in the Cart: Ordering Sperm Online12 Reciprocity in the Donation of Reproductive Oöcytes; 13 Expressed Breast Milk as Commodity: Disembodied Motherhood and Involved Fatherhood; 14 What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Young Women''s Online Conversations about Quitting the Pill; Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?; Bibliography; Index
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