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Book Synopsis>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech. These technologies of reproduction are not experienced in isolation by most of the people who use them. However clinical, public health and social scientific research often reflects a parcelling out of reproduction into specialist areas of biomedical intervention. Studies tend to be bound to specific physiological events, technologies (particularly those that are more obviously technical or ‘modern’) and people – namely cis, heterosexual, white, middle-class women. Yet, with the ever-expanding horizon of reproductive technologies and the rapid development of the fertility industry, the reality is that many individuals will engage with more than one such technology at some point in their life.
>Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse presents dialogue between scholars on different reproductive technologies not only from a comparative empirical perspective, arguing that operating in disciplinary silos and working from narrow ideas about RTs and their meanings can put reproductive studies in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.
Table of ContentsForeword; Rene Almeling
Chapter 1. Introduction: Technologies of Reproduction Across The Lifecourse; Katharine Dow and Victoria Boydell
Reflection One: Knowledge; Victoria Boydell And Katharine Dow
Section One: Reproductive Technologies across the Lifecourse
Chapter 2. ‘I feel like some kind of namoona’: Examining sterilisation in women’s abortion trajectories in India; Rishita Nandagiri
Chapter 3. When time becomes biological: experiences of age-related infertility and anticipation in reproductive medicine; Nolwenn Buhler
Chapter 4. Delaying menopause, buying time? Positioning ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation technologies (OTCT) for delaying menopause in the context of women’s embodied reproductive choice and agency across the lifecourse; Susan Pickard
Chapter 5. Chronic uncertainty and modest expectations: navigating fertility desires in the context of life with endometriosis; Nicky Hudson and Caroline Law
Reflection Two: Choice; Victoria Boydell And Katharine Dow
Section Two: Lifecourses of Reproductive Technologies
Chapter 6. Contraceptive Futures?: The hormonal body, populationism, and reproductive justice in the face of climate change; Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
Chapter 7. Spectacular reproduction revealed: Genetic genealogy testing as a re(tro)productive technology; Sallie Han
Chapter 8. ‘Getting the timing right’: Fertility apps and the temporalities of trying to conceive; Josie Hamper
Chapter 9. Biogenetics and/at the Border: The Structural Intimacies of LGBTQ Transnational Kinship; Sonja Mackenzie
Chapter 10. A Balancing Act: Situating reproductive technologies across time in the UK; Victoria Boydell
Reflection Three: Relationality; Victoria Boydell And Katharine Dow
Section Three: Reading Across Reproductive Technologies
Chapter 11. “Well, She’s Entitled to Her Choice”: Negotiating Technologies amidst Anticipatory Futures of Reproductive Potential; Ben Kasstan
Chapter 12. Men as irrational variables in family planning? Understanding the landscape, technological advancements, and extending health psychology theories and models; Amanda Wilson
Chapter 13. Inclusion, Exclusion, Anticipation: How the Politics of Intimate Relationships Structure Innovation; Ryan Whitacre
Chapter 14. Integrating Reproductive and Nonreproductive Technologies: Egg Freezing and Medical Abortion; Lucy van de Wiel
Afterword; Katharine Dow and Victoria
