Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experiences

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Conceiving of Postmodern Reproduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Towards a More Inclusive Framework for Understanding Fertility Barriers....Pages 23-38
Constructions of the ‘Best Interests of the Child’ in New South Wales Parliamentary Debates on Surrogacy....Pages 39-53
‘Diseases’, ‘Defects’, ‘Abnormalities’, and ‘Conditions’: Discursive Tensions in Prenatal Screening....Pages 54-68
The Limits of ‘Choice’: Abortion and Entrepreneurialism....Pages 69-83
Gaps in Post-Birth Care in Neoliberal Times: Evidence from Canada....Pages 84-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment....Pages 101-114
Picturing Postpartum Body Image: A Photovoice Study....Pages 115-134
‘My Doctor Told Me I Can Still Have Children But …’: Contradictions in Women’s Reproductive Health Experiences after Spinal Cord Injury....Pages 135-149
Taking a Long View of the ‘Right Time’ for Fatherhood....Pages 150-164
Anticipating and ‘Experiencing’ Birth: Men, Essentialisms, and Reproductive Realms....Pages 165-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Putting ‘Daddy’ in the Cart: Ordering Sperm Online....Pages 185-202
Reciprocity in the Donation of Reproductive Oöcytes....Pages 203-220
Expressed Breast Milk as Commodity: Disembodied Motherhood and Involved Fatherhood....Pages 221-235
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Young Women’s Online Conversations about Quitting the Pill....Pages 236-250
Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?....Pages 251-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-304