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Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

Mamo, Laura

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ISBN10: 0822340577
ISBN13: 9780822340577
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 3 2007
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. Queering Reproduction is an important sociological analysis of lesbians' use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians who have been or are seeking to become pregnant, Laura Mamo describes how reproduction has become an intensely medicalized process for lesbians, who are transformed into fertility patients not (or not only) because of their physical conditions but because of their sexual identities. Mamo argues that this medicalization of reproduction has begun to shape queer subjectivities in both productive and troubling ways, destabilizing the assumed link between heterosexuality and parenthood while also reinforcing traditional, heteronormative ideals about motherhood and the imperative to reproduce.

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