{"product_id":"queering-reproduction-9780822340782","title":"Queering Reproduction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a sociological analysis of lesbians' use of medical fertility treatments. This book describes how reproduction is an intensely medicalized process for lesbians, transforming them into patients more often due to their sexual identities than because of their physical conditions. It explores questions about the legal rights of co-parents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eQueering Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive and theoretically rich account of lesbians’ reproductive practices to date. Laura Mamo shows how social movements, emotions, consumerism, and biomedical technologies collide with the search for belonging to produce brave new families. She documents how sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex lead to myriad unintended consequences that both queer and normalize. A terrific book.”—Arlene Stein, author of \u003ci\u003eShameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mamo’s complex and multi-sited ethnography and her beautifully written and incisive analysis of the stories and accounts she finds there, will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of infertility and biomedicalisation, LGBTQ lives and politics, to students of ethnography and social science and to health practioners and clinicians working within reproductive medicine and health, as well as to those interested more broadly in thinking about the relationships between technologies, bodies and identities.” -- Tracey Jensen * Feminist Review *\u003cbr\u003e“The book’s strength is its smart, rich, and textured understanding of the past and present of lesbian communities’ negotiations of reproduction, an account that will seem deeply familiar to some readers and not at all to others. This written account of a largely oral and memory-based narrative is a tremendous resource for students and anyone who has not been inside or in close proximity to urban lesbian communities since the mid-1980s in the United States.” -- Laura Briggs * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e“The research is meticulous and thorough and the interview data are sensitively handled, and beautifully contextualized from a range of sources. It is an enormously accessible text and the writing style is very engaging. It is also highly original in scope. . . . This book engages with debates about the politics of reproduction, feminist analysis of technoscience, and lesbian and queer identity politics. It does so in a rigorous, well-informed and engaging way, while drawing on a wealth of impressively constructed empirical data.” -- Kate O'Riordan * Body \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. From Whence We Came: Sex without Reproduction Meets Reproduction without Sex 23\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. “Real Lesbians Don’t Have Kids” or Do They? Getting Ready for Lesbian Motherhood 58\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Choosing a Donor: Gaining, Securing, and Seeking Legitimacy 86\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Negotiating Conception: Lesbians’ Hybrid-Technology Practices 128\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Going High-Tech: Infertility Expertise and Lesbian Reproductive Practices 157\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Affinity Ties as Kinship Device 190\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Imagining Futures of Belonging 224\u003cbr\u003e Notes 251\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 273\u003cbr\u003e Index 295","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528006607191,"sku":"9780822340782","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822340782.jpg?v=1731870036","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queering-reproduction-9780822340782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}