Conceiving kinship :

This compelling study is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was consid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bonaccorso, Monica M. E.
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ;
Subjects:
Reproductive technology
Medical anthropology.
Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous
Oocyte Donation
Family Relations
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Social Identification
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008034317.html
Table of Contents:
  • Locating Conceiving kinship : new subjects, new boundaries?
  • Research in place : shifting fields of enquiry
  • Heterosexual couples : life plans, irreversible infertility and the choice of a programme and gamete donation
  • Heterosexual couples : gamete donation, donors and biogenetic make-up
  • Heterosexual couples and clinicians : strategies in private clinics of assisted conception
  • Lesbian and gay couples making families by donation
  • The traffic in kinship : southern Europe and Euro-America.

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