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Anti-Abortion Activism In The Uk - Ultra-Sacrificial Motherhood, Religion And Reproductive Rights In The Public Sphere

by Pam (Aston University, Uk) Lowe e Sarah-Jane (Aston University, Uk) Page

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 Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over space.
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Donors - Curious Connections In Donor Conception

by Leah Gilman e Petra Nordqvist

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 What is expected of 21st Century egg and sperm donors, and how does being a donor impact on men and women’s own personal lives and relationships? How do donors navigate connections and relationships created by donation? What do these connections mean to them, and to the people around them -their partners, parents, siblings and children?Donor conception is becoming increasingly widespread and since the new millennium, we have witnessed a dramatic shift in the way that donor conception is regulated and practiced in many jurisdictions around the world. In the past, donor conception has often been a family secret and donors were, almost by definition, anonymous. Now, ‘openness’ is seen as the ideal and donors can expect to be traced or contacted by those born from their donations. But what does this shift mean for donors, and their families?This path-breaking book draws on in-depth interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, and addresses these questions by analysing how understandings of donation are shaped by the regulatory, cultural and relational contexts in which they are formed. The authors also discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family life, and consider how reproductive ‘openness’ might be done differently.
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(In)Fertile Male Bodies - Masculinities And Lifestyle Management In Neoliberal Times

by Brendan Gough e Esmee Sinead Hanna

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 Declining global male fertility rates has generated increased attention on male fertility in recent years. Simultaneously, individualised responsibility for health has been growing. Fertility and lifestyle have therefore become seemingly intertwined.Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine men’s experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal experiences of the role of lifestyle in the quest for conception as well as the broader promotion of ‘lifestyle’ within both clinical and online material as a key aspect for ‘improving’ male fertility. Through the exploration of male fertility and lifestyle factors and their modification we examine the growth of healthism around infertility, the role of neoliberalism within this and how this intersects with masculinity. Using a new notion of liquid masculinity, we explore the fluid nature of societal and personal perspectives on the male infertility experience. In doing so we offer new insights into the now accepted idea that ‘sperm’ is malleable and that fertility controllable through personal choices, despite their being limited scientific evidence for such claims.
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Technologies Of Reproduction Across The Lifecourse - Expanding Reproductive Studies

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 >Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech. These technologies of reproduction are not experienced in isolation by most of the people who use them. However clinical, public health and social scientific research often reflects a parcelling out of reproduction into specialist areas of biomedical intervention. Studies tend to be bound to specific physiological events, technologies (particularly those that are more obviously technical or ‘modern’) and people - namely cis, heterosexual, white, middle-class women. Yet, with the ever-expanding horizon of reproductive technologies and the rapid development of the fertility industry, the reality is that many individuals will engage with more than one such technology at some point in their life.>Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse presents dialogue between scholars on different reproductive technologies not only from a comparative empirical perspective, arguing that operating in disciplinary silos and working from narrow ideas about RTs and their meanings can put reproductive studies in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.
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Reproductive Governance And Bodily Materiality - Flesh, Technologies, And Knowledge

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 Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.Throughout the collection the authors address the issues of abortion, sterilization, ''natural'' childbirth, breastfeeding, surrogacy, pregnancy loss, IVF, disability and parenting, whilst focusing both on the mechanisms through which reproductive behaviours are shaped and controlled, and on the socially and culturally constructed bodies'' materiality. The chapters analyse how reproductive governances are inherently attached to different social life aspects, such as gender, industry, and religion, residing within complex political domains and how these features are embodied through practices, care, rituals, and gestures. Rather than assuming corporeal materiality - the ''flesh'' - as something stable and pre-given, this collection shows how different bodies are defined and shaped by local biologies, institutional practices and reproductive subjects inside and outside the Euro-American space.This is essential reading for researchers of social, cultural and medical anthropology, sociology, and education.
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Egg Freezing, Fertility And Reproductive Choice - Negotiating Responsibility, Hope And Modern Motherhood

by Kylie Baldwin

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 The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021Growing numbers of women around the world are now accessing social egg freezing: a fertility extension technology which is enabling some women to extend their fertility and reproductive timelines when faced with age-related fertility decline. This book explores the accounts and experiences of some of the pioneering users of this technology in the UK and the USA.Drawing on theories and concepts across medical sociology and parenting culture studies, as well as literature from demography, anthropology, law, and bioethics, this book examines women’s motivations and experiences of social egg freezing in the context of debates surrounding reproductive choice and delayed motherhood. The book also delves into the broader sociological questions raised by this technology in relation to the gendered burden of appropriately timed parenthood, the medicalisation of women’s bodies in the reproductive domain and the further entrenchment of the geneticisation of society. It also considers the sexual politics underpinning the timing of parenthood, relationship formation and progression, and the way in which reproductive and parenting ideals, values and expectations can come in to conflict with the biological and relational realities of women’s lives.
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Surrogacy In Russia - An Ethnography Of Reproductive Labour, Stratification And Migration

by Christina Weis

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 This timely and fascinating feminist ethnography is the first of its kind to focus on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and from other countries of the former Soviet Union. Examining surrogacy workers'' reproductive labour, and experiences of stratification and migration, the study presents innovative insights into current research on global surrogacy practices and travels for assisted reproduction. It links to wider fields of studies, such as ethnicity, feminism, women''s and gender studies in the post-Soviet sphere.Weis expertly brings together rigorous ethnographic research, feminist debates and anthropological theory to explore the attributed significance of origin, citizenship, race, ethnicity and religion, and the cultural framing and social organization of surrogacy as an economic exchange; thereby challenging and contributing to the discourse of surrogacy as a gift, a labour of love, a maternal sacrifice or work.Tracing surrogacy workers'' journeys for surrogacy work across Russia, Weis introduces geographic and geopolitical stratifications as two new lenses of stratified reproduction to analyse how surrogacy in Russia builds on and propels surrogacy workers'' mobility and results in reproductive migrations.Given the rapid global increase in the use of surrogacy and its increasingly internationalised nature, Weis''s research has implications for surrogacy users, medical practitioners and regulators, as well as researchers concerned with (cross-border) surrogacy, reproductive stratifications and reproductive justice. Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2022
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Lived Realities Of Solo Motherhood, Donor Conception And Medically Assisted Reproduction

by Tine Ravn

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 This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.The author offers insights into how single women ''do'' family, identity and kinship and how the choice to create life as a solo mother is continuously rationalised. She uncovers how established, societal cultural narratives are adopted, negotiated and transformed in the processes of decision-making and fertility treatment. The book draws on science and technology studies, feminist theory, kinship- and family studies and identity theory, and reveals how aspects of bio-genetic and social connections (nature-culture) take on varying meanings when kinship and familial relations - are created through assisted reproduction.Through the lens of solo mother families, the book covers broader sociological questions including; how donor conception challenges existing and endemic kinship ideas and practices and what kinds of individual, social and legal responses have been prompted by advances within medically assisted reproduction.
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When Reproduction Meets Ageing - The Science And Medicine Of The Fertility Decline

by Nolwenn Buhler

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 Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries. Captured by the notion of the ''biological clock'', they put women''s reproductive age and the fertility decline to the centre of public and medical attention. Reproductive biomedicine constitutes a specific domain invested with hopes for technological and medical answers and a new market for fertility extension technologies, such as egg donation and social egg freezing.Addressing long-standing questions about the articulation of the biological and the social in the making of bodies and identities, this book questions the nature of reproductive ageing, a taken for granted ''fact of life'' at the core of reproductive biomedicine. What is the biology of the ''biological clock'' made of and how can we account for its embodied reality from a feminist perspective? Opening the black box of the biological, the book makes a way between essentialism and constructivism with the aim of accounting for its materiality, while also illuminating its political implications. By following the ontological choreographies of age-related infertility in the science and medicine of reproduction, this study explores how age materializes and documents what happens when reproduction meets ageing. Deeply transdisciplinary, it questions what is fixed about the biology of the fertility decline in a way which adds complexity to debates about the biomedicalization of reproductive ageing.
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Cryopolitics Of Reproduction On Ice - A New Scandinavian Ice Age

by Anna Sofie Bach, Charlotte Krolokke, Janne Rothmar Herrmann, Michael Nebeling Petersen, Rune Klingenberg, Stine Willum Adrian e Thomas Sobirk Petersen

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 Reproduction has entered a new ice age: the ability to cryopreserve reproductive cells, tissue and embryos are fundamentally changing our understanding of what it means to be a reproductive citizen. This book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies, with the authors situating their discussions of cryo-fertility within the Scandinavian region, asking: <div> <div>•How does cryopreservation help mobilize particular understandings of reproductive time, reproductive rights and reproductive autonomy? </div><div>•What values are embedded within Scandinavian laws that seek to regulate cryo-technologies? </div><div>•How are frozen states enacted in clinical settings and how do the women and men who freeze imagine the preservation of reproductive parts? </div><div> </div><div>These questions demand a collaborative approach. The authors empirically cut across the arenas of bioethics/law, practices/experiences, and culture/commerce in order to pin down often complex and far-reaching answers. </div></div>
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Voluntary And Involuntary Childlessness - The Joys Of Otherhood?

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 Childlessness is not a new phenomenon, but empirical evidence from the demographic field has demonstrated that it is on the increase. Furthermore, childlessness has a number of consequences for both women and men, the communities in which they live, their psychic states, their social networks and the organisations in which they work. Bringing together research from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, gender studies, social work and social policy, and underpinned by a feminist ontology this edited collection of original chapters provides an insight into the current state of the art research on the drivers, determinants, manifestations and outcomes of childlessness. The collection is intended to be a key resource for scholars, students and policymakers addressing this issue in a wide range of disciplinary contexts.
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Anti-Abortion Activism In The Uk - Ultra-Sacrificial Motherhood, Religion And Reproductive Rights In The Public Sphere

by Pam (Aston University, Uk) Lowe e Sarah-Jane (Aston University, Uk) Page

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 Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over space.
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Surrogacy In Russia - An Ethnography Of Reproductive Labour, Stratification And Migration

by Christina (De Montfort University, Uk) Weis

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 Surrogacy in Russia focuses on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Examining workers' reproductive migrations, the study presents insights into cross-border reproductive treatment and travels for assisted reproduction, and links to ethnicity, feminism, womenâ€™s and gender studies.
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When Reproduction Meets Ageing - The Science And Medicine Of The Fertility Decline

by Nolwenn (University Of Lausanne, Switzerland) Buhler

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 When Reproduction meets AgeingÂ questions the nature of reproductive ageing and reproductive biomedicine.
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Lived Realities Of Solo Motherhood, Donor Conception And Medically Assisted Reproduction

by Tine (Aarhus University, Denmark) Ravn

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 This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.
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The Cryopolitics Of Reproduction On Ice - A New Scandinavian Ice Age

by Anna Sofie (University Of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Bach, Charlotte (University Of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Krolã¸Kke, Janne Rothmar (University Of Copenhagen, Denmark) Herrmann, Michael Nebeling (University Of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Petersen, Rune (University Of Roskilde, Denmark) Klingenberg, Stine Willum (Aalborg University, Denmark) Adrian e Thomas Sã¸Birk (University Of Roskilde, Denmark) Petersen

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 Reproduction has entered a new ice age. Using cryopolitics as an interdisciplinary framework to help understand the contemporary state of cryo-fertility, this book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies.

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