Reconceiving the Second Sex : : Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction / / ed. by Marcia C. Inhorn, Helene Goldberg, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Maruska la Cour Mosegaard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Dudgeon, Matthew R.,; Goldberg, Helene,; Gutmann, Matthew C.,; Han, Sallie,; Hanh, Nguyen Thi Thuy,; Inhorn, Marcia C.,; Ivry, Tsipy,; Miller, Janneli F.,; Moore, Lisa Jean,; Mosegaard, Maruska la Cour,; Oaks, Laury,; Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine,; Yen, Aura,
• HerausgeberIn: Goldberg, Helene,; Inhorn, Marcia C.,; Mosegaard, Maruska la Cour,; Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men’s reproductive concerns or contributions to...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• FIGURES
• Introduction THE SECOND SEX IN REPRODUCTION? MEN, SEXUALITY, AND MASCULINITY
• Part I. MASCULINITY AND REPRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 THE MISSING GAMETE? TEN COMMON MISTAKES OR LIES ABOUT MEN’S SEXUAL DESTINY
• Chapter 2 KILLER SPERM: MASCULINITY AND THE ESSENCE OF MALE HIERARCHIES
• Chapter 3 GENDER, MASCULINITY, AND REPRODUCTION: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
• Chapter 4 MEN’S INFLUENCES ON WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
• Part II. FERTILITY AND FAMILY PLANNING
• Chapter 5 MANHOOD AND MEANING IN THE MARKETING OF THE “MALE PILL”
• Chapter 6 REPRODUCTIVE PARADOXES IN VIETNAM: MASCULINITY, CONTRACEPTION, AND ABORTION IN VIETNAM
• Chapter 7 REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA: DECONSTRUCTING A MINORITY MALEDOMINATED PERSPECTIVE ON REPRODUCTION
• Part III. INFERTILITY AND ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
• Chapter 8 THE SEX IN THE SPERM: MALE INFERTILITY AND ITS CHALLENGES TO MASCULINITY IN AN ISRAELI-JEWISH CONTEXT
• Chapter 9 “IT’S A BIT UNMANLY IN A WAY”: MEN AND INFERTILITY IN DENMARK
• Chapter 10 MALE GENITAL CUTTING: MASCULINITY, REPRODUCTION, AND MALE INFERTILITY SURGERIES IN EGYPT AND LEBANON
• Part IV. CHILDBIRTH AND FATHERHOOD
• Chapter 11 “WE ARE PREGNANT”: ISRAELI MEN AND THE PARADOXES OF SHARING
• Chapter 12 MAKING ROOM FOR DADDY: MEN’S “BELLY TALK” IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES
• Chapter 13 HUSBAND-ASSISTED BIRTH AMONG THE RARÁMURI OF NORTHERN MEXICO
• Chapter 14 STORIES OF FATHERHOOD: KINSHIP IN THE MAKING
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX