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Zusatztext 2010 Most Notable Recent Collection Prize Awarded by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction " Overall! there is a well-balanced mix of ethnography and theory that engages the reader throughout the volume?[The book] is successful in challenging assumptions and stereotypes surrounding men's involvement in reproduction and demonstrating that the topic of men and reproduction has been neglected by social scientific study thus far?[and] represents an important initial text on a subject deserving of further attention in the social sciences. " · The Journal of Biosocial Science " Whilst anthropologists acknowledge men's sexuality! we tend to view men as disengaged from reproduction! and to see their power as lying elsewhere in social life. This exceptionally well edited collection of fourteen stimulating essays attempts to redress this imbalance! by analyzing men's complex! varied! and ever-changing reproductive lives?the collection offers an excellent starting-point for a potentially rewarding intellectual endeavour. " · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute " These researchers hail from four continents! thus providing a cross-cultural perspective as they give voice to men's experiences in the process of reproduction. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches! including content analysis! participant observation! in-depth interviewing! reproductive history intakes! and survey questionnaires. The result is a comprehensive! engaging volume that will certainly trigger additional interest and research in this heretofore ignored aspect of men's lives. Highly recommended ." · Choice "The book is logically structured! clearly organised and well presented. The breadth and depth of insight provided ensures that it covers all key areas of debates in relation to infertility! reproduction and the links to men and masculinities. In addition! the range of geographical regions that the studies are drawn from ensures that nuanced consideration is given to how localised cultural discourses intersect with gendered conceptualisations of reproductive techniques in a global context." · Sociology of Health and Illness "...an overdue first step in recognizing that men's role in contemporary human reproduction - from their gametes to their psyches - has been a neglected realm of scientific and scholarly pursuit." · Robert D. Nachtigall ! M.D.! Institute for Health and Aging! University of California! San Francisco Informationen zum Autor Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the past-president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of six books on the subject. Maruska la Cour Mosegaard is a Social Anthropologist and has recently finished research on homosexual fatherhood in Denmark. She is currently working at KVINFO, the Danish Center of Information on Women and Gender Research. She is coauthor of a children’s book that introduces the various ways children today come into being in single-parent, heterosexual, and homosexual families; it will appear in December 2008 in both Danish and Swedish. Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen is a Social Anthropologist and Associate Professor ...
