Mamo Queering Reproduction

Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9022-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbian women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mamo, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1. From Whence We Came: Sex without Reproduction Meets Reproduction without Sex 23

Chapter 2. “Real Lesbians Don’t Have Kids” or Do They? Getting Ready for Lesbian Motherhood 58

Chapter 3. Choosing a Donor: Gaining, Securing, and Seeking Legitimacy 86

Chapter 4. Negotiating Conception: Lesbians’ Hybrid-Technology Practices 128

Chapter 5. Going High-Tech: Infertility Expertise and Lesbian Reproductive Practices 157

Chapter 6. Affinity Ties as Kinship Device 190

Chapter 7. Imagining Futures of Belonging 224

Notes 251

Works Cited 273

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Mamo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at the University of Maryland.