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Lived realities of solo motherhood, donor conception and medically assisted reproduction
This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families. The author offers insights into how single women 'do' family, identity and kinship and how the choice to create life as a solo mother is continuously rationalised. She uncovers how established, societal cultural narratives are adopted, negotiated and transformed in the processes of decision-making and fertility treatment. The book draws on science and technology studies, feminist theory, kinship- and family studies and identity theory, and reveals how aspects of bio-genetic and social connections (nature-culture) take on varying meanings when kinship and familial relations - are created through assisted reproduction. Through the lens of solo mother families, the book covers broader sociological questions including; how donor conception challenges existing and endemic kinship ideas and practices and what kinds of individual, social and legal responses have been prompted by advances within medically assisted reproduction.
Introduction: Puzzling paradoxes of nature vs nurture -- Chapter 1. Creating life as a solo mother: An emerging phenomenon? -- Chapter 2. Theorizing reproductive technologies: Negotiating nature and nurture in kinship and identity making -- Chapter 3. Getting access to fertility treatment: Governing the 'natural order of life' -- Chapter 4. Revising life biographies: A choice by design and not by chance -- Chapter 5. Undergoing fertility treatment: Reworking boundaries of 'natural processes' -- Chapter 6. Forming donor-conceived families: The complex interplay of biogenetic and social ties -- Chapter 7. Choosing and relating to the donor: managing complex kinship boundaries -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Strategies for life appendix 1. Conducting the study: Research design and methodology appendix 2. Glossary on mar.
authored by Tine Ravn (Aarhus University, Denmark).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emerald studies in reproduction, culture and society