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An interdisciplinary investigation into how kinship today is desired, pursued, produced, transformed, and regulated in a world characterized by increased (im)mobility and travel of people, bodies, reproductive substances, knowledge, and expertise.
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Acknowledgements / Introduction: Critical Kinship Studies: Kinship (Trans)Formed , Charlotte Kroløkke, Lene Myong, Stine W. Adrian, and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen / Part I: Kinship as Substance / 1. The Milk of Human Kinship: Donated Breast Milk in Neonatal Intensive Care, Katherine Carroll / 2. Mattering Kinship: Inheritance, Biology and Egg Donation, Between Genetics and Epigenetics, Jenny Gunnarsson Payne / 3. Keeping up Appearances: Resemblance Talk amongst Permanent and Foster Carers in Australia, Damien W. Riggs / 4."It's Not My Eggs, It Is Not My Husband's Sperm, It Is Not My Child": Surrogacy and "Not Doing Kinship" in Ghana, Trudie Gerrits / Part II: Kinship as Consumption / 5. Migrant Care and the Production of Fictive Kin, Antía Pérez-Caramés and Raquel Martínez-Buján / 6. Feminist Global Motherhood: Representations of Single Mother Adoption in Swedish Media, Johanna Gondouin / 7. Documentaries on Transnational Surrogacy in India: Questions of Privilege, Respectability and Kinship, Karen Hvidtfeldt / 8. Family Re-imagined: Assisted Reproduction and Parenthood in Mozambique, Inês Faria / 9. ART in the Sun. Assembling Fertility Tourism in the Caribbean, Charlotte Kroløkke / Part III: Kinship as Political Economy / 10. Towards a Political Economy of Egg Cell Donations: "Doing it the Israeli Way", Sigrid Vertommen / 11. Subversive Practices of Sperm Donation: Globalising Danish Sperm, Stine Willum Adrian / 12. The Risk of Relatedness: Governing Kinship in Swedish Transnational Adoption Policy, Malinda Andersson / 13. Real Versus Fictive Kinship: Legitimating the Adoptive Family, Kimberly McKee / Part IV: Kinship (Re)Imagined / 14. Re-imag(in)ing Life-Making, or Queering the Somatechnics of Reproductive Futurity, Nikki Sullivan and Sara Davidmann / 15. When Medicalisation is (Not) Needed. Single Women and Lesbian Couples' Choices of Transnational Donor Conception, Giulia Zanini / 16. I Never Knew: Adoptee Remigration to South Korea, Lene Myong / 17. Kinning Animals. Animals as Kin, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen / Index
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Edited by Charlotte Kroløkke; Lene Myong; Stine Willum Adrian and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
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An interdisciplinary investigation into how kinship today is desired, pursued, produced, transformed, and regulated in a world characterized by increased (im)mobility and travel of people, bodies, reproductive substances, knowledge, and expertise.
