Undoing Motherhood : : Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity / / Katherine M. Johnson.

In 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of th...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Families in Focus
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.) :; 6 bw, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. A New Maternity Uncertainty?
  • 2. Conceiving Motherhood and the Repronormative Family
  • 3. Losing My Genetics: Paternal versus Maternal Concerns
  • 4. Contingent Maternities? Maternal Claims Making in Collaborative Reproduction
  • 5. Designating Maternity: Contested Motherhood and the Courts
  • 6. Adopting or Resisting New Maternities?
  • 7. Concluding Thoughts: Maternity Somewhere in Between
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author