Meghana Joshi has been Clinical Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York since 2018. She is an ethnographer of reproduction, childlessness and masculinity. Her research interests include demographic anthropology and parenting.

“Meghana Joshi convincingly outlines how the tensions between demographic fears and pro-reproductive policies are articulated in everyday practices and how this reproduces certain gender regimes and specific inclusions and exclusions.” • Anthropos“There are some unique and important discussions [in this book] that I have not seen elaborated elsewhere and certainly not brought together in one place.” • Heide Castañeda, University of South Florida

• DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Raum and Ruhe: Creating “Child-Friendly” Spaces in “Child-Unfriendly” BerlinChapter 2. Let Me through, I am the Kinderwagenmafia: “Swabian Mothers” and Conspicuous Reproduction in Reunified BerlinChapter 3. Constituting the Childless: Narratives of Reproductive Exclusions, and Belonging in Reunified Berlin~Chapter 4. Becoming Fathers in a Child-Friendlier Germany: Active Fatherhood, Male Infertility and the Labor of PaternityConclusionBibliographyIndex

Meghana Joshi has been Clinical Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York since 2018. She is an ethnographer of reproduction, childlessness and masculinity. Her research interests include demographic anthropology and parenting.

“Meghana Joshi convincingly outlines how the tensions between demographic fears and pro-reproductive policies are articulated in everyday practices and how this reproduces certain gender regimes and specific inclusions and exclusions.” • Anthropos“There are some unique and important discussions [in this book] that I have not seen elaborated elsewhere and certainly not brought together in one place.” • Heide Castañeda, University of South Florida

• DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Raum and Ruhe: Creating “Child-Friendly” Spaces in “Child-Unfriendly” BerlinChapter 2. Let Me through, I am the Kinderwagenmafia: “Swabian Mothers” and Conspicuous Reproduction in Reunified BerlinChapter 3. Constituting the Childless: Narratives of Reproductive Exclusions, and Belonging in Reunified Berlin~Chapter 4. Becoming Fathers in a Child-Friendlier Germany: Active Fatherhood, Male Infertility and the Labor of PaternityConclusionBibliographyIndex

Meghana Joshi has been Clinical Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York since 2018. She is an ethnographer of reproduction, childlessness and masculinity. Her research interests include demographic anthropology and parenting.

“Meghana Joshi convincingly outlines how the tensions between demographic fears and pro-reproductive policies are articulated in everyday practices and how this reproduces certain gender regimes and specific inclusions and exclusions.” • Anthropos“There are some unique and important discussions [in this book] that I have not seen elaborated elsewhere and certainly not brought together in one place.” • Heide Castañeda, University of South Florida

• DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Raum and Ruhe: Creating “Child-Friendly” Spaces in “Child-Unfriendly” BerlinChapter 2. Let Me through, I am the Kinderwagenmafia: “Swabian Mothers” and Conspicuous Reproduction in Reunified BerlinChapter 3. Constituting the Childless: Narratives of Reproductive Exclusions, and Belonging in Reunified Berlin~Chapter 4. Becoming Fathers in a Child-Friendlier Germany: Active Fatherhood, Male Infertility and the Labor of PaternityConclusionBibliographyIndex