Diane Tober

Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which ""modern families"" are created and regulated. This book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780813590790
• ISBN-10: 0813590795
• Artikelnr.: 51971322

Autorenporträt

Diane Tober is an assistant adjunct professor at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging. In addition to her research, she also produced and directed the documentary film, The Perfect Donor.  

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Murphy Brown and the Lesbian Baby Boom
Chapter 2: Technologies and Politics of Reproduction
Chapter 3: Semen to Go: Choosing Conception Alternatively
Chapter 4: Semen Transactions: Donor Screening and the Regulation of
Sexuality
Chapter 5: Grass Roots Eugenics and the Fantasy Donor
Chapter 6: Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the
Market in Altruism
Chapter 7: From "Old Eggs" to "Odysseus' Journey"-the Phenomenology of
Infertility
Chapter 8: What's Alternative About Family?
Chapter 9: From Murphy Brown to Modern Families
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards a New BioPoliTechs of Emerging Families
Afterward
Acknowledgements
References
About the Author