Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality

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By: Monica M.E. Bonaccorso

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Hardcover | 1 October 2008

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Conceiving Kinship 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 considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.

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"...a fine example of how an anthropological approach, based on skilful ethnographic research, can illuminate the way kinship and family are understood in present-day culture...[The book] is an exemplary ethnography, building on previous works in this area and making advances in both methodology and theory." · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

"Conceiving Kinship provides intriguing and important insights into a period of rapid and unregulated development in assisted conception in Italy in the late 1990s. The book draws us into detailed and sensitive accounts of couples' intentions, assumptions and actions during a time of shifting expectations about parenthood and the ways that one might become a parent. Rich interview and conversational material is gathered from heterosexual as well as homosexual couples in relation to a wide range of assisted conception scenarios. This detailed ethnographic fieldwork, combined with a sustained analytical interrogation, makes for a significant contribution to the complex mosaic of practices and values which lie beneath the Euro-American kinship label. It is one which will become an important reference point for future debates about assisted conception in Europe and beyond." · Robert Simpson, Reader, University of Durham

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Non-Fiction Medicine Pre-Clinical Medicine & Basic Sciences Human Reproduction, Growth & Development Reproductive Medicine Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships Science

Biology, Life Sciences Human Biology Medical Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Gay & Lesbian Studies Gay Studies for Gay Men

Locating Conceiving kinship : new subjects, new boundaries?	p. 1
Research in place : shifting fields of enquiry	p. 15
Heterosexual couples : life plans, irreversible infertility and the choice of a programme of gamete donation	p. 33
Heterosexual couples : gamete donation, donors and biogenetic make-up	p. 51
Heterosexual couples and clinicians : strategies in private clinics of assisted conception	p. 66
Lesbian and gay couples making families by donation	p. 84
The traffic in kinship : Southern Europe and Euro-America	p. 107
Assisted conception in Italy : a legislative and political controversy, 1996-99	p. 117
Profile of infertile heterosexual couples	p. 127
Profile of lesbian and gay couples	p. 131
Bibliography	p. 135
Index	p. 147
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