Undoing motherhood : collaborative reproduction and the deinstitutionalization of US maternity / Katherine M. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Katherine M. (Sociologist), author.

Series:

Families in focus.

Families in focus series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--United States.

Motherhood.

Human reproductive technology--Social aspects--United States.

Human reproductive technology.

Reproductive rights--United States.

Reproductive rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

In 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. A New Maternity Uncertainty?

2. Conceiving Motherhood and the Repronormative Family

3. Losing My Genetics: Paternal versus Maternal Concerns

4. Contingent Maternities? Maternal Claims Making in Collaborative Reproduction

5. Designating Maternity: Contested Motherhood and the Courts

6. Adopting or Resisting New Maternities?

7. Concluding Thoughts: Maternity Somewhere in Between

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-9788-0869-0

1-9788-0871-2

OCLC:

1371140508