On Having an Own Child

Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood

AvKarin Lesnik-Oberstein

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people w

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-31
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367325770

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Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction -- The wanting of a baby: nature, history, culture, and society -- The wanting of a baby: desire, despair, hope, and regret -- The child that is wanted: perfection and commodification -- The child that is wanted: kinship and the body of evidence -- The child that is wanted: reading race and the global child -- Conclusion: coming to grief in theory