Reframing Reproduction
Conceiving Gendered Experiences
1st Edition
Published on 4. July 2014
XV, 304 pages
978-1-137-26713-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 304 p.
File size
1,43 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-26713-9 (9781137267139)
DOI
10.1057/9781137267139
Schweitzer Classification
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07/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Eastern Washington University, USA
Cecilia Benoit, University of Victoria, Canada
Sarah Berry, McGill University, Canada
Margaret Boulos, University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Collins, University of Adelaide, Australia
E. Anne Kinsella, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Heather Dillaway, Wayne State University, USA
Clemence Due, University of Adelaide, Australia
Kate Gleeson, Macquarie University, Australia
Marianna Grady, State University of New York, USA
Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University, USA
Katherine M. Johnson, Tulane University, USA
Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney, Australia
Deborah Lupton, University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Lysack, Wayne State University, USA
Julia McQuillan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Tina Miller, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Lisa Jean Moore, State University of New York, UK
Jeff Nisker, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Rachel Phillips, University of Victoria, Canada
Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University, Australia
Kath Ryan, La Trobe University, Australia
Fiona Shirani, Cardiff University, UK
Karina M. Shreffler, Oklahoma State University, USA
Camille Stengel, University of Kent, UK
Victoria Team, La Trobe University, Australia
Meredith Vanstone, McMaster University, Canada
Catherine Waldby, Sydney University, Australia
Maria Zadoroznyj, University of Queensland, Australia
Content
Introduction: Conceiving of Postmodern Reproduction; Meredith Nash PART I: CONTESTED 'CHOICES' AND CHALLENGES 1. Towards a More Inclusive Framework for Understanding Fertility Barriers; Katherine M. Johnson, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil and Karina M. Shreffler 2. Constructions of the 'Best Interests of the Child' in New South Wales Parliamentary Debates on Surrogacy; Catherine Ruth Collins, Damien W. Riggs, and Clemence Due 3. 'Diseases', 'Defects', 'Abnormalities' and 'Conditions': Discursive Tensions in Prenatal Screening; Meredith Vanstone, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, and Jeff Nisker 4. The Limits of 'Choice': Abortion and Entrepreneuralism; Kate Gleeson 5. Gaps in Post-Birth Care in Neoliberal Times: Evidence from Canada; Cecilia Benoit, Camille Stengel, Rachel Phillips, Maria Zadoroznyj, and Sarah Berry PART II: REPRODUCTIVE BODIES AND IDENTITIES 6. Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment ; Deborah Lupton 7. Picturing Postpartum Body Image: A Photovoice Study; Meredith Nash 8. 'My Doctor Told Me I Can Still Have Children But .': Contradictions in Women's Reproductive Health Experiences After Spinal Cord Injury; Heather Dillaway and Catherine Lysack 9. Taking a Long View of the 'Right Time' for Fatherhood; Fiona Shirani 10. Anticipating and 'Experiencing' Birth: Men, Essentialisms and Reproductive Realms; Tina Miller PART III: THE (GLOBAL) REPRODUCTIVE MARKETPLACE 11. Putting 'Daddy' in the Cart: Ordering Sperm Online; Lisa Jean Moore and Marianna Grady 12. Reciprocity in the Donation of Reproductive Oöcytes; Margaret Boulos, Ian Kerridge, and Catherine Waldby 13. Expressed Breast Milk as Commodity: Disembodied Motherhood and Involved Fatherhood; Victoria Team and Kath Ryan 14. What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Young Women's Online Conversations About Quitting the Pill; Elizabeth Arveda Kissling Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? ; Meredith Nash
