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OverviewOriginally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. Queering Reproduction is an important sociological analysis of lesbians’ use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians who have been or are seeking to become pregnant, Laura Mamo describes how reproduction has become an intensely medicalized process for lesbians, who are transformed into fertility patients not (or not only) because of their physical conditions but because of their sexual identities. Mamo argues that this medicalization of reproduction has begun to shape queer subjectivities in both productive and troubling ways, destabilizing the assumed link between heterosexuality and parenthood while also reinforcing traditional, heteronormative ideals about motherhood and the imperative to reproduce. Mamo provides an overview of a shift within some lesbian communities from low-tech methods of self-insemination to a reliance on outside medical intervention and fertility treatments. Reflecting on the issues facing lesbians who become parents through assisted reproductive technologies, Mamo explores questions about the legal rights of co-parents, concerns about the genetic risks of choosing an anonymous sperm donor, and the ways decisions to become parents affect sexual and political identities. In doing so, she investigates how lesbians navigate the medical system with its requisite range of fertility treatments, diagnostic categories, and treatment trajectories. Combining moving narratives and insightful analysis, Queering Reproduction reveals how medical technology reconfigures social formations, individual subjectivity, and notions of kinship. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura MamoPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.581kg ISBN: 9780822340577ISBN 10: 0822340577 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 03 September 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 295ReviewsQueering Reproduction is the most comprehensive and theoretically rich account of lesbians' reproductive practices to date. Laura Mamo shows how social movements, emotions, consumerism, and biomedical technologies collide with the search for belonging to produce brave new families. She documents how sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex lead to myriad unintended consequences that both queer and normalize. A terrific book. --Arlene Stein, author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture Queering Reproduction is the most comprehensive and theoretically rich account of lesbians' reproductive practices to date. Laura Mamo shows how social movements, emotions, consumerism, and biomedical technologies collide with the search for belonging to produce brave new families. She documents how sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex lead to myriad unintended consequences that both queer and normalize. A terrific book. -Arlene Stein, author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture """Queering Reproduction is the most comprehensive and theoretically rich account of lesbians' reproductive practices to date. Laura Mamo shows how social movements, emotions, consumerism, and biomedical technologies collide with the search for belonging to produce brave new families. She documents how sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex lead to myriad unintended consequences that both queer and normalize. A terrific book.""--Arlene Stein, author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture" Author InformationLaura Mamo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at the University of Maryland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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