The Reproductive Industry (eBook, ePUB)

Intimate Experiences and Global Processes
Redaktion: Mackie, Vera; Ferber, Sarah; Marks, Nicola J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498570664
• Artikelnr.: 57157040

Autorenporträt

Vera Mackie is senior professor of Asian and international studies and director of the Center for Critical Human Rights Research at University of Wollongong. Nicola J. Marks is senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong. Sarah Ferber is professor of history at the University of Wollongong.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Body and the Globe
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Halves?: IVF in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s
Chapter 2: Situating India in the Global Assisted Reproduction Industry
Chapter 3: "A Cloak and Dagger Situation": Artificial Insemination, Secrecy
and Openness in New Zealand, 1950s to Early 2000s
Chapter 4: An Examination of "Just in Case" Arguments as They are Applied
to Fertility Preservation for Transgender People
Chapter 5: 'The Queer Multiracial Family: Figuring Race in Donor-Assisted
Conception
Chapter 6: 'IVF and the "Promise of Happiness"
Chapter 7: Private International Law and Cross-Border Surrogacy: The Role
of Analogy
Chapter 8: "Stop Thai Women's Wombs from Becoming the World's Womb":
Reproductive Nationalism and the Closure of Commercial Surrogacy in
Thailand
Chapter 9: Modes of Mobility: Tracing the Routes of Reproductive Travel in
the Asia-Pacific Region