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Exploring the use of assisted reproduction technologies in many different locations, this volume provides a general understanding of policies, discourses and practices of ARTs in the contemporary world.
List of contents
Part I: ARTs in a Neoliberal World of Transnational Reproflows
1. Citizen, Subject, Property: Indian Surrogacy and the Global Fertility Market
2. Fair Play in a Dirty Field? The Ethical Work of Commissioning Surrogacy in India
3. "Families Like We’d Always Known"? Spanish Gay Fathers’ Normalization Narratives in Transnational Surrogacy
4. Destination Spain: Negotiating Nationality and Fertility when Traveling for Eggs
5. The South African Economy of Egg Donation: Looking at the BioEconomic Side of Normalization
Part II: Perplexed State Regulations, Legal Inconsistencies and Cultural Tricksters
6. Governing New Reproductive Technologies across Western Europe: The Gender Dimension
7. Norwegian Biopolitics in the First Decade of the 2000s: Family Politics and Assisted Reproduction Understood through the Concept of the Trickster
8. Bringing it All Back Home: Cross-Border Procreative Practices. Examples from Norway
9. Finland as a Late Regulator of Assisted Reproduction: A Permissive Policy under Debate
Part III: Religious Fundamentalism, Humanist Values, and State Dilemmas in an Era of Technological Monsters
10. Reframing Conception, Reproducing Society: Italian Paradoxes
11. The Veto of Moral Politics: The Catholic Church and ARTs in Ireland
12. Desiring Bodies: Problematizing the Matter of ARTs in Poland
13. Germany goes PGD: The Appeal to Women’s and Human Rights Discourse in the Paradigmatic Amendment to the German Embryo Protection Act
14. Matters of Donation and Preserved Relations: Co-Construction of Egg Donation and Family Structures in Iran
Part IV: ARTs as Entangled in Demographic Agendas and Biopolitics
15. Babies from Behind Bars: Stratified Assisted Reproduction in Palestine/Israel
16. From Precarity to Self-Governance: Performing Motherhood through IVF Treatment in Ukraine
17. Russian Legislative Practices and Debates on the Restriction of Wide Access to ARTs
Part V: "New Normals" and their Discontents
18. Lesbian Kinship and ARTs in American Popular Culture: The L Word and The Kids Are All Right
19. Naturalization and Un-Naturalization: ARTs, Childlessness and Choice
20. Sperm Stories: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Sperm Donation and Sperm Banking in Denmark
21. Cellular Origins: A Visual Analysis of Time-Lapse Embryo Imaging
About the author
Merete Lie is Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and leader of the Centre for Gender Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, co-director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and director of InterGender International Research School, Sweden.
Summary
Exploring the use of assisted reproduction technologies in many different locations, this volume provides a general understanding of policies, discourses and practices of ARTs in the contemporary world.
