Infertility around the globe : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies /
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | viii, 347 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4776575 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Discourses and Debates
- 1. Introduction: Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences
- 2. The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle Margarete
- 3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility
- 4. The Psychologization of Infertility
- Part II. Gender and Body Politics
- 5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency
- 6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States
- 7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern
- 8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context Catherine
- 9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica
- Part III. The Infertility Belt
- 10. Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives
- 11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields
- 12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique Trudie
- 13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Part IV. Globalizing Technologies
- 14. The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt
- 15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel
- 16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics
- 17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India
- Contributors
- Index
