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Romancing the sperm shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families

Title
Romancing the sperm [electronic resource] : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families / Diane Tober.
Author
Tober, Diane.
Publication
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description
1 online resource (xv, 220 pages)
Uniform Title
Romancing the sperm (Online)
Alternative Title
Romancing the sperm (Online)
Subject
  • Artificial insemination > Social aspects
  • Human reproductive technology > Social aspects
  • Single mothers
  • Families
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Murphy Brown and the lesbian baby boom -- Technologies and politics of reproduction -- Semen to go: choosing conception alternatively -- Semen transactions: donor screening and the regulation of sexuality -- Grass roots eugenics and the fantasy donor -- Semen as gift, semen as goods: reproductive workers and the market in -- Altruism -- From "old eggs" to "Odysseus' journey"-the phenomenology of infertility -- What's alternative about family? -- From Murphy Brown to modern families -- Conclusion: towards a new biopolitechs of emerging families.
LCCN
2018004643
OCLC
ssj0002125842
Author
Tober, Diane.
Title
Romancing the sperm [electronic resource] : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families / Diane Tober.
Imprint
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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