Sebastian Mohr is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He works on the ethnography of gender, sexuality, and intimacy in the fields of (reproductive) biomedicine, the military and militarization, and technology. He is co-convenor of the EASA European Network for Queer Anthropology, board member of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association, and member of the editorial board of Women, Gender & Research.

"Mohr is to be commended on having carried out an ethnographic study that is thorough and sensitive. Not only that, the work shows considerable theoretical ambition in its analysis of biomedical subjectivation at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and assisted reproductive technologies... informed by a comprehensive grasp of kinship, feminist and queer theories." - Bob Simpson, University of Durham

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Being a Sperm DonorChapter 1. Becoming a Sperm Donor: Conceptual PathwaysChapter 2. Regimes of Living: Donating Semen and the Pleasure of MoralityChapter 3. Affective Investments: Masturbation and the Pleasure of ControlChapter 4. Biosocial Relatedness: Being Connected and the Pleasure of ResponsibilityChapter 5. The Limits of Biosocial Subjectivation: Male Shame and the Displeasure of Gender NormativityConclusion: Biosocial Subjectivation ReconsideredBibliography

Sebastian Mohr is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He works on the ethnography of gender, sexuality, and intimacy in the fields of (reproductive) biomedicine, the military and militarization, and technology. He is co-convenor of the EASA European Network for Queer Anthropology, board member of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association, and member of the editorial board of Women, Gender & Research.

"Mohr is to be commended on having carried out an ethnographic study that is thorough and sensitive. Not only that, the work shows considerable theoretical ambition in its analysis of biomedical subjectivation at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and assisted reproductive technologies... informed by a comprehensive grasp of kinship, feminist and queer theories." - Bob Simpson, University of Durham

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Being a Sperm DonorChapter 1. Becoming a Sperm Donor: Conceptual PathwaysChapter 2. Regimes of Living: Donating Semen and the Pleasure of MoralityChapter 3. Affective Investments: Masturbation and the Pleasure of ControlChapter 4. Biosocial Relatedness: Being Connected and the Pleasure of ResponsibilityChapter 5. The Limits of Biosocial Subjectivation: Male Shame and the Displeasure of Gender NormativityConclusion: Biosocial Subjectivation ReconsideredBibliography

Sebastian Mohr is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He works on the ethnography of gender, sexuality, and intimacy in the fields of (reproductive) biomedicine, the military and militarization, and technology. He is co-convenor of the EASA European Network for Queer Anthropology, board member of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association, and member of the editorial board of Women, Gender & Research.

"Mohr is to be commended on having carried out an ethnographic study that is thorough and sensitive. Not only that, the work shows considerable theoretical ambition in its analysis of biomedical subjectivation at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and assisted reproductive technologies... informed by a comprehensive grasp of kinship, feminist and queer theories." - Bob Simpson, University of Durham

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Being a Sperm DonorChapter 1. Becoming a Sperm Donor: Conceptual PathwaysChapter 2. Regimes of Living: Donating Semen and the Pleasure of MoralityChapter 3. Affective Investments: Masturbation and the Pleasure of ControlChapter 4. Biosocial Relatedness: Being Connected and the Pleasure of ResponsibilityChapter 5. The Limits of Biosocial Subjectivation: Male Shame and the Displeasure of Gender NormativityConclusion: Biosocial Subjectivation ReconsideredBibliography