Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights difference and diversity in relation to contemporary reproductive choices. The book focuses on women's and men's experiences of agency, control and negotiation within the context of cultural, medical, political, theoretical and lay ideologies of the reproductive process in contemporary Western societies.
Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights difference and diversity in relation to contemporary reproductive choices. The book focuses on women's and men's experiences of agency, control and negotiation within the context of cultural, medical, political, theoretical and lay ideologies of the reproductive process in contemporary Western societies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
ALISON BOWES is Professor of Sociology, University of Stirling, UK ANNILY CAMPBELL is Student Advisor at Oxford University Student Union, UK DEBORAH DAVIDSON is a Doctoral Student and Tutorial Assistant in Sociology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada TERESA M. DOMOKOS is a former Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, UK SARAH EARLE is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at University College Northampton, UK TABITHA FREEMAN is studying for her PhD at the Sociology Department, University of Essex, UK EILEEN GREEN is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social and Policy Research at the University of Teeside, UK BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, USA GAYLE LETHERBY is Associate Head of Subject and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Justice at Coventry University, UK JUDY PURKIS is a Senior Lecturer in Women's Health Studies at the University of Central England, UK EDWIN VAN TEIJLINGEN is a Medical Sociologist at the University of Aberdeen, UK GILL WADSWORTH is a Project Co-ordinator for an independent research company KATH WOODWARD is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, UK
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List of Tables and Figures Prologue Notes on Contributors Introducing Gender, Identity & Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby PART 1: REPRESENTING REPRODUCTION Introduction Representations of Motherhood; K.Woodward 'Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads': The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture; T.Freeman 'Battle of the Gametes': Cultural Representations of Medically Assisted Conception; G.Letherby Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 2: REPRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS: COOPERATION AND NEGOTIATION Birth Matters: Learning From My Past - A Midwifery for the Future; B.K.Rothman 'Your Dignity is Hung up at the Door': Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth; A.Bowes & T.M.Domokos The Quintessential Female Act?: Learning About Birth; J.Purkis Dutch Midwives: The Difference Between Image and Reality; E.van Teijlingen Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood & Identity; S.Earle Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 3: REPRODUCTIVE IDENTITIES: EXCLUSION AND RESISTANCE Introduction Woe the Women: DES Mothers and Daughters; D.Davidson 'I didn't think much of his bedside manner but he was very skilled at his job': Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility'; G.Letherby 'Cutting Out Motherhood': Childfree, Sterilised Women; A.Campbell Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of Their Experiences of Menopause; G.Wadsworth & E.Green Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading Reflecting on Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby
List of Tables and Figures Prologue Notes on Contributors Introducing Gender, Identity & Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby PART 1: REPRESENTING REPRODUCTION Introduction Representations of Motherhood; K.Woodward 'Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads': The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture; T.Freeman 'Battle of the Gametes': Cultural Representations of Medically Assisted Conception; G.Letherby Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 2: REPRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS: COOPERATION AND NEGOTIATION Birth Matters: Learning From My Past - A Midwifery for the Future; B.K.Rothman 'Your Dignity is Hung up at the Door': Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth; A.Bowes & T.M.Domokos The Quintessential Female Act?: Learning About Birth; J.Purkis Dutch Midwives: The Difference Between Image and Reality; E.van Teijlingen Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood & Identity; S.Earle Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 3: REPRODUCTIVE IDENTITIES: EXCLUSION AND RESISTANCE Introduction Woe the Women: DES Mothers and Daughters; D.Davidson 'I didn't think much of his bedside manner but he was very skilled at his job': Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility'; G.Letherby 'Cutting Out Motherhood': Childfree, Sterilised Women; A.Campbell Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of Their Experiences of Menopause; G.Wadsworth & E.Green Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading Reflecting on Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby
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