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In The Reproductive Industry, scholars explore the local and international histories of in vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction, revealing the dynamics of the evolving reproductive industry.
List of contents
Introduction: The Body and the Globe
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Halves?: IVF in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s
Chapter 2: Situating India in the Global Assisted Reproduction Industry
Chapter 3: "A Cloak and Dagger Situation": Artificial Insemination, Secrecy and Openness in New Zealand, 1950s to Early 2000s
Chapter 4: An Examination of "Just in Case" Arguments as They are Applied to Fertility Preservation for Transgender People
Chapter 5: 'The Queer Multiracial Family: Figuring Race in Donor-Assisted Conception
Chapter 6: 'IVF and the "Promise of Happiness"
Chapter 7: Private International Law and Cross-Border Surrogacy: The Role of Analogy
Chapter 8: "Stop Thai Women's Wombs from Becoming the World's Womb": Reproductive Nationalism and the Closure of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand
Chapter 9: Modes of Mobility: Tracing the Routes of Reproductive Travel in the Asia-Pacific Region
About the author
Vera Mackie is senior professor of Asian and international studies and director of the Center for Critical Human Rights Research at University of Wollongong.
Nicola J. Marks is senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong.
Sarah Ferber is professor of history at the University of Wollongong.
Summary
In The Reproductive Industry, scholars explore the local and international histories of in vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction, revealing the dynamics of the evolving reproductive industry.
