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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 1990s marked a new era in family formation. Increased access to donor sperm enabled single women and lesbian couples to create their families on their own terms, outside the bounds of heterosexual married relationships. However, emerging "alternative" families were not without social and political controversy. Women who chose to have children without male partners faced many challenges in their quest to have children. Despite current wider social acceptance of single people and same sex couples becoming parents, many of these challenges continue. In Romancing the Sperm, Diane Tober explores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which "modern families" are created and regulated. Through tangible and intimate stories, this book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how ever-expanding assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

1. Murphy Brown and the Lesbian Baby Boom

2. Technologies and Politics of Reproduction

3. Semen to Go: Choosing Conception Alternatively

4. Semen Transactions: Donor Screening and the Regulation of Sexuality

5. Grassroots Eugenics and the Fantasy Donor

6. Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism

7. From "Old Eggs" to "Odysseus's Journey": The Phenomenology of Infertility

8. What's Alternative about Family?

9. From Murphy Brown to Modern Families

10. Conclusion: Toward a New BioPoliTechs of Emerging Families

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-9082-5

OCLC:

1121052467