The Business of Being Made

The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and culture
Herausgeber: Gentile, Katie

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Produktbeschreibung

The Business of Being Made is the first book to critically analyze assisted reproductive technologies from a psychoanalytic perspective. It is a ground-breaking and original critical perspective on ARTs (Assisted Reproductive Technologies), using interview research, clinical case studies, psychoanalytic based ethnography, personal essay, clinical theory and cultural theory to examine these technologies. Included is current research in psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology and philosophy and debates in critical cultural theory about affect, temporality, and bodies. ARTs are being used more and more frequently, yet psychoanalysis has not written about them critically or with clinical experiences. With psychoanalysis as its fulcrum, The Business of Being Made integrates cultural, queer, and feminist theories to explore social constructions and personal experiences of ARTs. Katie Gentile explores how ARTs have become a complex form of playing with time, attempting to manufacture a hopeful future in the midst of growing uncertainty. The Business of Being Made is full of original material and it will be relevant to clinicians, medical and psychological personnel working in assisted reproductive technologies and infertility, as well as academics working in the fields of sociology, literature, queer and feminist theories and at the intersections of cultural, critical and psychoanalytic theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780415749411
• ISBN-10: 0415749417
• Artikelnr.: 44139744

Autorenporträt

Katie Gentile is Professor and Director of the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is author of the Routledge title Creating bodies: Eating disorders as self-destructive survival, editor of the Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Cultures book series, also from Routledge, and co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

Section one: Setting up the context by integrating cultural and
psychoanalytic theories to explore ARTs
Chapter 1: Introducing the Business of Being Made
Kate Gentile
Chapter 2: Bridging Psychoanalytic and Cultural Times - Using
Psychoanalytic Theory to Better Understand how Reprofuturity and
Biomedicalization Produce Subjectivities
Kate Gentile
Chapter 3: Situating ARTs in the Cultural Imagination
Katie Gentile
Chapter 4: Producing Temporalities through Assisted Reproductive
Technologies
Katie Gentile
Section two: Filling in the Gaps of ARTs
Chapter 5: The Bodies and Bits of (Re)Production: Dilemmas of Egg
'Donation' under Neoliberalism.
Michelle Leve
Chapter 6: Male Infertility: The Erection of a Myth, The Myth of an
Erection
Adam Kaplan
Chapter 7: Baby Making: It takes an Egg and Sperm and a Rainbow of Genders
Diane Ehrensaft
Chapter 8: The Shadow Side of ART- Babies and Parents in the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Zina Steinberg and Susan Kraemer
Section three: Looking Closely, A Case Study of Egg Donation
Chapter 9: Spoken Through Desire - Maternal Subjectivity and Assisted
Reproduction
Tracy Simon
Chapter 10: On Viability and Indebtedness - Or, "Get Away from her you
Bitch!" (after Roberto Bolaño)
Stephen Hartman
Chapter 11: Teleplastic Abduction: Subjectivity in the Age of ART or
Delirium for Psychoanalysis: Commentary on Simon's "Spoken Through Desire"
André Lepecki
Chapter 12: Zen and the ART of Making Babies: A Discussion of Tracy Simon's
Paper
Orna Guralnik
Chapter 13: Reply to Commentaries: Lepecki, Hartman and Guralnik
Tracy Simon
Chapter 14: Epilogue - Embodying the Gaps in the Face of Catastrophe and
Hyperobjects.
Kate Gentile