Description

Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Body and the Globe

Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Halves?: IVF in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s

Chapter 2: Situating India in the Global Assisted Reproduction Industry

Chapter 3: “A Cloak and Dagger Situation”: Artificial Insemination, Secrecy and Openness in New Zealand, 1950s to Early 2000s

Chapter 4: An Examination of “Just in Case” Arguments as They are Applied to Fertility Preservation for Transgender People

Chapter 5: ‘The Queer Multiracial Family: Figuring Race in Donor-Assisted Conception

Chapter 6: ‘IVF and the “Promise of Happiness”

Chapter 7: Private International Law and Cross-Border Surrogacy: The Role of Analogy

Chapter 8: “Stop Thai Women’s Wombs from Becoming the World’s Womb”: Reproductive Nationalism and the Closure of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

Chapter 9: Modes of Mobility: Tracing the Routes of Reproductive Travel in the Asia-Pacific Region

Product details

Published 24 Jul 2019
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978751002
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Vera Mackie

Anthology Editor

Nicola J. Marks

Anthology Editor

Sarah Ferber

Contributor

Jane Adams

Contributor

Sarah Ferber

Contributor

Sarah Franklin

Contributor

Jaya Keaney

Contributor

Vera Mackie

Contributor

Nicola J. Marks

Contributor

Vasudha Mohanka

Contributor

Robyn Morris

Contributor

Damien W. Riggs

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