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Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families / Diane Tober.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tober, Diane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial insemination--Social aspects.
- Artificial insemination.
- Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.
- Human reproductive technology.
- Single mothers.
- Families.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 220 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Murphy Brown and the lesbian baby boom
- Technologies and politics of reproduction
- Semen to go: choosing conception alternatively
- Semen transactions: donor screening and the regulation of sexuality
- Grassroots eugenics and the fantasy donor
- Semen as gift, semen as goods: reproductive workers and the market in Altruism
- From "old eggs" to "Odysseus's journey": the phenomenology of infertility
- What's alternative about family?
- From Murphy Brown to modern families
- Conclusion: towards a new biopolitechs of emerging families.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813590790
- 0813590795
- 9780813590783
- 0813590787
- OCLC:
- 1022080971
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