Being a Sperm Donor : : Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark / / Sebastian Mohr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Mohr, Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: BEING A SPERM DONOR --; Chapter 1 BECOMING A SPERM DONOR: CONCEPTUAL PATHWAYS --; Chapter 2 REGIMES OF LIVING: DONATING SEMEN AND THE PLEASURE OF MORALITY --; Chapter 3 AFFECTIVE INVESTMENTS: MASTURBATION AND THE PLEASURE OF CONTROL --; Chapter 4 BIOSOCIAL RELATEDNESS: BEING CONNECTED AND THE PLEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITY --; Chapter 5 THE LIMITS OF BIOSOCIAL SUBJECTIVATION: MALE SHAME AND THE DISPLEASURE OF GENDER NORMATIVITY --; CONCLUSION: BIOSOCIAL SUBJECTIVATION RECONSIDERED --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339479; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339479?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sebastian Mohr.

What does it mean to be a man in our biomedical day and age? Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary. It investigates men’s moral reasoning regarding donation, their handling of transgressive experiences at the sperm bank, and their negotiations of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and relatedness, showing how the socio-cultural and political dimensions of (reproductive) biomedicine become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.