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Queering Reproduction – Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

Autor Laura Mamo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2007
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. Queering Reproduction is an important sociological analysis of lesbians’ use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians seeking to get pregnant—as well as specialists working in sperm banks, fertility clinics, and midwifery practices—Laura Mamo describes how reproduction has become an intensely medicalized process for lesbians, transforming them into patients more often due to their sexual identities than because of their physical conditions. Mamo argues that this medicalization of reproduction has begun to shape queer subjectivities in both productive and troubling ways: by destabilizing the assumed link between heterosexuality and parenthood while also reinforcing traditional, heteronormative ideals about motherhood and the imperative to reproduce. Mamo provides an overview of a shift within some lesbian communities from low-tech methods of self-insemination to a reliance on outside medical intervention and fertility treatments. Considering the issues facing lesbians who become parents through assisted reproductive technologies, Mamo explores questions about the legal rights of co-parents, concerns about the genetic risks of choosing an anonymous sperm donor, and the ways decisions to become a parent affects one’s sexual and political identities. In doing so, she investigates how lesbians navigate the medical system with its requisite range of fertility treatments, diagnostic categories, and treatment trajectories. Combining moving narratives and insightful analysis, Queering Reproduction reveals how medical technology reconfigures social formations, individual subjectivity, and notions of kinship.
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ISBN-13: 9780822340782
ISBN-10: 082234078X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 6 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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“Queering Reproduction is the most comprehensive and theoretically rich account of lesbians’ reproductive practices to date. Laura Mamo shows how social movements, emotions, consumerism, and biomedical technologies collide with the search for belonging to produce brave new families. She documents how sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex lead to myriad unintended consequences that both queer and normalize. A terrific book.”—Arlene Stein, author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture

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""Queering Reproduction" is the most comprehensive and theoretically rich account of lesbians' reproductive practices to date. Laura Mamo shows how social movements, emotions, consumerism, and biomedical technologies collide with the search for belonging to produce brave new families. She documents how sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex lead to myriad unintended consequences that both queer and normalize. A terrific book."--Arlene Stein, author of "Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture"

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Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbians