Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.
Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Monica M.E. Bonaccorso is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Durham, following a position as Affiliated Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
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Boxes Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Locating Conceiving Kinship: New Subjects, New Boundaries * Introduction * An Overview of Anthropological Enquiry into Assisted Conception * An Overview of Italian Anthropology Chapter 2. Research in Place: Shifting Fields of Enquiry * Introduction * Multiple Investigations, Sites, Informants * Main Investigation * Comparative Investigation * Collateral Investigation Chapter 3. Heterosexual Couples: Life Plans, Irreversible Infertility and the Choice of a Programme of Gamete Donation * A Case: Anna and Artificial Insemination by Donor * Introduction * Planning Our Life, Planning Our Children * Discovering Irreversible Infertility * Choosing a Programme of Gamete Donation * Normalizing Gamete Donation * Do It Quickly (and It Lasts Forever) Chapter 4. Heterosexual Couples: Gamete Donation, Donors and Biogenetic Make-up * A Case: Matilde and Egg Donation * Introduction * Infertile Couples, Biological Inheritance and Biogenetic Make-up * Couples' Perception of Donors and Donation * Good Intentions, Gifts and Donors' Displacement Chapter 5. Heterosexual Couples and Clinicians: Strategies in Private Clinics of Assisted Conception * Extract from Field Notes: at Lunch with Clinicians * Introduction * The Provision of Services in Private Clinics of Assisted Conception * Life around Clinics and Clinicians: Trust, Faith and Dependency * The Hyper-medicalized Infertile Couple * Managing Recurrent Failure in the Clinic * Getting to Understand Programmes of Gamete Donation * The Work of Kinship in the Clinic Chapter 6. Lesbian and Gay Couples Making Families by Donation * A Case: a Lesbian Couple Planning a Family by Donation * Introduction * Lesbian and Gay Couples: Planning a Life Together * Planning Families * Rethinking Motherhood and Fatherhood * The Lesbian and Gay Way: The Procreative Project * The Lesbian and Gay Way: Practices of Inclusion * The Lesbian and Gay Way: Practices of Relatedness Chapter 7. The Traffic in Kinship: Southern Europe and Euro-America * Introduction * Ethnographic Reflections: Some Key Notions * Programmes of Gamete Donation: Challenging (in Principle) the 'Model' Italian versus Euro-American Kinship: Generalizing the 'Model' A Concluding Note: Conceiving Kinship Appendix I: Assisted Conception in Italy: A Legislative and Political Controversy, 1996-99 * Towards a Unified Text: Political Controversies over Legislation * The Death of the Unified Text: The Rise of a New Controversy * The Political Project Behind Assisted Conception, 1996-99 Appendix II: Profile of Infertile Heterosexual Couples Appendix IIa: Profile of Lesbian and Gay Couples Bibliography Index
Boxes Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Locating Conceiving Kinship: New Subjects, New Boundaries * Introduction * An Overview of Anthropological Enquiry into Assisted Conception * An Overview of Italian Anthropology Chapter 2. Research in Place: Shifting Fields of Enquiry * Introduction * Multiple Investigations, Sites, Informants * Main Investigation * Comparative Investigation * Collateral Investigation Chapter 3. Heterosexual Couples: Life Plans, Irreversible Infertility and the Choice of a Programme of Gamete Donation * A Case: Anna and Artificial Insemination by Donor * Introduction * Planning Our Life, Planning Our Children * Discovering Irreversible Infertility * Choosing a Programme of Gamete Donation * Normalizing Gamete Donation * Do It Quickly (and It Lasts Forever) Chapter 4. Heterosexual Couples: Gamete Donation, Donors and Biogenetic Make-up * A Case: Matilde and Egg Donation * Introduction * Infertile Couples, Biological Inheritance and Biogenetic Make-up * Couples' Perception of Donors and Donation * Good Intentions, Gifts and Donors' Displacement Chapter 5. Heterosexual Couples and Clinicians: Strategies in Private Clinics of Assisted Conception * Extract from Field Notes: at Lunch with Clinicians * Introduction * The Provision of Services in Private Clinics of Assisted Conception * Life around Clinics and Clinicians: Trust, Faith and Dependency * The Hyper-medicalized Infertile Couple * Managing Recurrent Failure in the Clinic * Getting to Understand Programmes of Gamete Donation * The Work of Kinship in the Clinic Chapter 6. Lesbian and Gay Couples Making Families by Donation * A Case: a Lesbian Couple Planning a Family by Donation * Introduction * Lesbian and Gay Couples: Planning a Life Together * Planning Families * Rethinking Motherhood and Fatherhood * The Lesbian and Gay Way: The Procreative Project * The Lesbian and Gay Way: Practices of Inclusion * The Lesbian and Gay Way: Practices of Relatedness Chapter 7. The Traffic in Kinship: Southern Europe and Euro-America * Introduction * Ethnographic Reflections: Some Key Notions * Programmes of Gamete Donation: Challenging (in Principle) the 'Model' Italian versus Euro-American Kinship: Generalizing the 'Model' A Concluding Note: Conceiving Kinship Appendix I: Assisted Conception in Italy: A Legislative and Political Controversy, 1996-99 * Towards a Unified Text: Political Controversies over Legislation * The Death of the Unified Text: The Rise of a New Controversy * The Political Project Behind Assisted Conception, 1996-99 Appendix II: Profile of Infertile Heterosexual Couples Appendix IIa: Profile of Lesbian and Gay Couples Bibliography Index
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