Laura Mamo

Queering Reproduction

Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbian women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340577
• ISBN-10: 0822340577
• Artikelnr.: 22884528

Autorenporträt

Laura Mamo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. From Whence We Came: Sex without Reproduction Meets Reproduction
without Sex 23
Chapter 2. “Real Lesbians Don’t Have Kids” or Do They? Getting Ready for
Lesbian Motherhood 58
Chapter 3. Choosing a Donor: Gaining, Securing, and Seeking Legitimacy 86
Chapter 4. Negotiating Conception: Lesbians’ Hybrid-Technology Practices
128
Chapter 5. Going High-Tech: Infertility Expertise and Lesbian Reproductive
Practices 157
Chapter 6. Affinity Ties as Kinship Device 190
Chapter 7. Imagining Futures of Belonging 224
Notes 251
Works Cited 273
Index 295