{"product_id":"conceiving-kinship-assisted-conception-procreation-and-family-in-southern-europe-9781845451134","title":"Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eConceiving Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e 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 considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ea fine example of how an anthropological approach, based on skilful ethnographic research, can illuminate the way kinship and family are understood in present-day culture…[The book] is an exemplary ethnography, building on previous works in this area and making advances in both methodology and theory\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie sociale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eConceiving Kinship\u003ci\u003e provides intriguing and important insights into a period of rapid and unregulated development in assisted conception in Italy in the late 1990s. The book draws us into detailed and sensitive accounts of couples' intentions, assumptions and actions during a time of shifting expectations about parenthood and the ways that one might become a parent. Rich interview and conversational material is gathered from heterosexual as well as homosexual couples in relation to a wide range of assisted conception scenarios. This detailed ethnographic fieldwork, combined with a sustained analytical interrogation, makes for a significant contribution to the complex mosaic of practices and values which lie beneath the Euro-American kinship label. It is one which will become an important reference point for future debates about assisted conception in Europe and beyond.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Robert Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e, Reader, University of Durham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tBoxes\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Locating Conceiving Kinship: New Subjects, New Boundaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAn Overview of Anthropological Enquiry into Assisted Conception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAn Overview of Italian Anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Research in Place: Shifting Fields of Enquiry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMultiple Investigations, Sites, Informants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMain Investigation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tComparative Investigation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCollateral Investigation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Heterosexual Couples: Life Plans, Irreversible Infertility and the Choice of a Programme of Gamete Donation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Case: Anna and Artificial Insemination by Donor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPlanning Our Life, Planning Our Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiscovering Irreversible Infertility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tChoosing a Programme of Gamete Donation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNormalizing Gamete Donation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDo It Quickly (and It Lasts Forever)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Heterosexual Couples: Gamete Donation, Donors and Biogenetic Make-up\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Case: Matilde and Egg Donation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInfertile Couples, Biological Inheritance and Biogenetic Make-up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCouples' Perception of Donors and Donation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGood Intentions, Gifts and Donors' Displacement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Heterosexual Couples and Clinicians: Strategies in Private Clinics of Assisted Conception\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tExtract from Field Notes: at Lunch with Clinicians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Provision of Services in Private Clinics of Assisted Conception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLife around Clinics and Clinicians: Trust, Faith and Dependency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Hyper-medicalized Infertile Couple\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManaging Recurrent Failure in the Clinic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGetting to Understand Programmes of Gamete Donation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Work of Kinship in the Clinic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Lesbian and Gay Couples Making Families by Donation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Case: a Lesbian Couple Planning a Family by Donation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLesbian and Gay Couples: Planning a Life Together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPlanning Families\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRethinking Motherhood and Fatherhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Lesbian and Gay Way: The Procreative Project\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Lesbian and Gay Way: Practices of Inclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Lesbian and Gay Way: Practices of Relatedness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. The Traffic in Kinship: Southern Europe and Euro-America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEthnographic Reflections: Some Key Notions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tProgrammes of Gamete Donation: Challenging (in Principle) the 'Model' Italian versus Euro-American Kinship: Generalizing the 'Model'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eA Concluding Note: Conceiving Kinship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix I: Assisted Conception in Italy: A Legislative and Political Controversy, 1996-99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTowards a Unified Text: Political Controversies over Legislation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Death of the Unified Text: The Rise of a New Controversy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Political Project Behind Assisted Conception, 1996-99\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix II: Profile of Infertile Heterosexual Couples\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix IIa: Profile of Lesbian and Gay Couples\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042965127511,"sku":"9781845451134","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451134.jpg?v=1750956433","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conceiving-kinship-assisted-conception-procreation-and-family-in-southern-europe-9781845451134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}