Romancing the Sperm : : Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families / / Diane Tober.
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 a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 1 table, 1 figure (graph) |
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Table of 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