Conceiving Kinship : : Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe / / Monica M.E. Bonaccorso.

Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considere...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2009
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • BOXES
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: CONCEIVING KINSHIP: ASSISTED CONCEPTION, PROCREATION AND FAMILY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
  • CHAPTER 1 LOCATING CONCEIVING KINSHIP: NEW SUBJECTS, NEW BOUNDARIES?
  • CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH IN PLACE: SHIFTING FIELDS OF ENQUIRY
  • CHAPTER 3 HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES: LIFE PLANS, IRREVERSIBLE INFERTILITY AND THE CHOICE OF A PROGRAMME OF GAMETE DONATION
  • CHAPTER 4 HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES: GAMETE DONATION, DONORS AND BIOGENETIC MAKE-UP
  • CHAPTER 5 HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES AND CLINICIANS: STRATEGIES IN PRIVATE CLINICS OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION
  • CHAPTER 6 LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES MAKING FAMILIES BY DONATION
  • CHAPTER 7 THE TRAFFIC IN KINSHIP: SOUTHERN EUROPE AND EURO-AMERICA
  • APPENDIX I ASSISTED CONCEPTION IN ITALY: A LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL CONTROVERSY, 1996 – 99
  • APPENDIX II PROFILE OF INFERTILE HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES
  • APPENDIX IIA PROFILES OF LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX