£44.99
Publication Date:
04 Jul 2014
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Palgrave Macmillan
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Description
How do rapid social and technological changes shape reproductive realms today? This book considers the complex choices, anxieties and challenges that come alongside postmodern reproduction for women and men in the West. Topics include surrogacy, fatherhood, sperm banking, egg donation, contraception, breastfeeding, and postpartum body image.
Contents
Introduction: Conceiving of Postmodern Reproduction; Meredith Nash PART I: CONTESTED 'CHOICES' AND CHALLENGES 1. Towards a More Inclusive Framework for Understanding Fertility Barriers; Katherine M. Johnson, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil and Karina M. Shreffler 2. Constructions of the 'Best Interests of the Child' in New South Wales Parliamentary Debates on Surrogacy; Catherine Ruth Collins, Damien W. Riggs, and Clemence Due 3. 'Diseases', 'Defects', 'Abnormalities' and 'Conditions': Discursive Tensions in Prenatal Screening; Meredith Vanstone, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, and Jeff Nisker 4. The Limits of 'Choice': Abortion and Entrepreneuralism; Kate Gleeson 5. Gaps in Post-Birth Care in Neoliberal Times: Evidence from Canada; Cecilia Benoit, Camille Stengel, Rachel Phillips, Maria Zadoroznyj, and Sarah Berry PART II: REPRODUCTIVE BODIES AND IDENTITIES 6. Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment ; Deborah Lupton 7. Picturing Postpartum Body Image: A Photovoice Study; Meredith Nash 8. 'My Doctor Told Me I Can Still Have Children But ...': Contradictions in Women's Reproductive Health Experiences After Spinal Cord Injury; Heather Dillaway and Catherine Lysack 9. Taking a Long View of the 'Right Time' for Fatherhood; Fiona Shirani 10. Anticipating and 'Experiencing' Birth: Men, Essentialisms and Reproductive Realms; Tina Miller PART III: THE (GLOBAL) REPRODUCTIVE MARKETPLACE 11. Putting 'Daddy' in the Cart: Ordering Sperm Online; Lisa Jean Moore and Marianna Grady 12. Reciprocity in the Donation of Reproductive Ooecytes; Margaret Boulos, Ian Kerridge, and Catherine Waldby 13. Expressed Breast Milk as Commodity: Disembodied Motherhood and Involved Fatherhood; Victoria Team and Kath Ryan 14. What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Young Women's Online Conversations About Quitting the Pill; Elizabeth Arveda Kissling Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? ; Meredith Nash
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