The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
 Introduction: Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives  (Tracey Loughran, Gayle Davis)....Pages 1-25
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 Introduction: Defining the ‘Problem’: Perspectives on Infertility  (Tracey Loughran, Gayle Davis)....Pages 29-35
 Great Expectations: Infertility, Disability, and Possibility  (Sally Bishop Shigley)....Pages 37-55
 Whose Fault is it Anyway? Plant Infertility in Antiquity  (Laurence M.V. Totelin)....Pages 57-75
 From ‘Fructification’ to ‘Insemination’: Nomenclature and the Practice of Artificial Insemination  (Bridget Gurtler)....Pages 77-98
 Silences: Coping with Infertility in Nineteenth-Century Germany  (Christina Benninghaus)....Pages 99-122
 Oral History and Women’s Accounts of Infertility in Postwar England  (Angela Davis)....Pages 123-140
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 Introduction: The Body Politic and the Infertile Body  (Tracey Loughran, Gayle Davis)....Pages 143-149
 Sterility and Sovereignty: The Succession Crisis of the Late Valois Monarchy  (Penny Roberts)....Pages 151-169
 ‘If slendernesse be the cause of unfruitfulnesse; you must nourish and fatten the body’: Thin Bodies and Infertility in Early Modern England  (Sarah Toulalan)....Pages 171-197
 Obstacles to the Establishment of a Policy to Combat Infertility in France, c. 1920–1950  (Fabrice Cahen)....Pages 199-219
 ‘Phantom Fathers’ and ‘Test-Tube Babies’: Debates on Marriage, Infertility, and Artificial Insemination in the British Media, c. 1957–60  (Hayley Andrew)....Pages 221-239
 ‘She Gets the Taunts and Bears the Blame’: Infertility in Contemporary India  (Daniel J.R. Grey)....Pages 241-262
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 Introduction: Situating Infertility in Medicine  (Gayle Davis, Tracey Loughran)....Pages 265-271
 Men’s Responses to Infertility in Late Medieval England  (Catherine Rider)....Pages 273-290
 The Ancient Medical Sources in the Chapters about Sterility of Rodrigo de Castro’s De universa mulierum medicina  (Cristina Santos Pinheiro)....Pages 291-310
 Female Impotence or Obstruction of the Womb? French Doctors Picturing Female Sterility in the 1820s  (Sophie Vasset)....Pages 311-333
 ‘The Great Foe to the Reproduction of the Race’: Diagnosing and Treating Infertility Caused by Venereal Diseases, 1880–1914  (Anne Hanley)....Pages 335-358
 ‘A Tragedy as Old as History’: Medical Responses to Infertility and Artificial Insemination by Donor in 1950s Britain  (Gayle Davis)....Pages 359-381
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 Introduction: Agency and Invisibility in Constructions of Infertility  (Tracey Loughran, Gayle Davis)....Pages 385-391
 The Psychology of Infertility in Reproductive Medicine and Healthcare, c. 1940s–2000s  (Sofia Gameiro, Jacky Boivin)....Pages 393-413
 The Interplay Between Infertility and Adoption in Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century Australia  (Shurlee Swain)....Pages 415-430
 Conditions of Illusion: Agency, Feminism, and Cultural Representations of Infertility in Britain, c. 1960–80  (Tracey Loughran)....Pages 431-459
 The Janus Face of Infertility in the Global North and South: Reviewing Feminist Contributions to the Debate  (Sara MacBride-Stewart, Rachel Simon-Kumar)....Pages 461-489
 Being Paid to Produce Eggs and Sperm: Gender, Commodification, and the Bodily Experiences of Gamete Donors  (Rene Almeling)....Pages 491-507
 Representations of Ageing and Infertility in the Twenty-First-Century British Press  (Virpi Ylänne)....Pages 509-535
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 Introduction: Reproductive Technologies and Imagined Futures  (Gayle Davis, Tracey Loughran)....Pages 539-544
 Americans and Assisted Reproduction: The Past as Prologue  (Margaret Marsh)....Pages 545-564
 In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, and the ‘Right to a Child’ in 1970s and 1980s Britain  (Duncan Wilson)....Pages 565-586
 ‘The Authority’s Anti-Breeding Campaign’: State-Imposed Infertility in British Reprodystopia  (Fran Bigman)....Pages 587-607
 Infertility, Ethics, and the Future: An Exploration  (Daniela Cutas)....Pages 609-624
Back Matter ....Pages 625-663