Diane Tober

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

• Broschiertes 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780813590783
• ISBN-10: 0813590787
• Artikelnr.: 51971903

Autorenporträt

Diane Tober

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