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Queering reproduction : achieving pregnancy in the age of technoscience / Laura Mamo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mamo, Laura, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbian mothers--United States.
- Lesbian mothers.
- Self-insemination--United States.
- Self-insemination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbian women.
- Contents:
- From whence we came : sex without reproduction meets reproduction without sex
- "Real lesbians don't have kids" or do they? getting ready for lesbian motherhood
- Choosing a donor : gaining, securing, and seeking legitimacy
- Negotiating conception : lesbians' hybrid-technology practices
- Going high-tech : infertility expertise and lesbian reproductive practices
- Affinity ties as kinship device
- Imagining futures of belonging.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923500
- 9780822340577
- 0822340577
- 9781282923508
- 1282923501
- OCLC:
- 271178006
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