Queering reproduction: achieving pregnancy in the age of technoscience

by Mamo, Laura

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Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbian women.

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Title Statements

Full title :Queering reproduction : achieving pregnancy in the age of technoscience / Laura Mamo.

Summary

Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbian women.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham, N.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822390220, 0822390221, 9786612923500, 6612923504, 1282923501, 9781282923508
DOI:10.1515/9780822390220
oclc:ocn647091003
LC Classification:HQ75.53
Dewey Decimal:306.874/30866430973

From whence we came : sex without reproduction meets reproduction without sex -- "Real lesbians don't have kids" or do they? getting ready for lesbian motherhood -- Choosing a donor : gaining, securing, and seeking legitimacy -- Negotiating conception : lesbians' hybrid-technology practices -- Going high-tech : infertility expertise and lesbian reproductive practices -- Affinity ties as kinship device -- Imagining futures of belonging.

Subjects

Auto-insémination -- États-Unis Insemination Lesbe Lesbian mothers Lesbian mothers -- United States Mères lesbiennes -- États-Unis Mutter Mutterschaft Self-insemination Self-insemination -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- LGBT Studies United States USA