Description
Book SynopsisPuts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. This book details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility.
Trade Review"[A] compassionate and substantive analysis of male infertility. Her ethnographic work is two-pronged: first, it reveals the history of male infertility and the responses of modern medicine; second, it studies the ways in which this oft-hidden precinct of medicine works overtime to bolster the masculinity of its patients [...] Barnes weaves a bounty of analytic threads into a compelling ethnography whose interviews with infertile men and their (mostly male) doctors make the story come richly alive in this overdue study." - Publishers Weekly
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index
