Reproductive Citizenship: Technologies, Rights and Relationships (Health, Technology and Society)

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1: Introduction: Reproductive Citizenship and Meanings of Infertility
	Medical Infertility
	Social Infertility
	Structural Infertility
	The Chapters in This Volume
		Part I: Technologies
		Part II: Rights
		Part III: Relationships
	References
Part I: Technologies
	2: Affective Animacy and Temporalities in Danish Women’s Accounts of Cryopreserved Embryos
		Introduction
		Affective Animacy
			Methods of Data Collection
			Animacies and Strategy for Analysis
		Analyses
			Merely Cells?
			Kinning of Embryos
			Temporal Synchronisation: Somatic and Generational Temporalities
			Temporal Intensification
		Conclusion: Affective Animacy
		References
	3: The Affective Temporalities of Ovarian Tissue Freezing: Hopes, Fears, and the Folding of Embodied Time in Medical Fertility Preservation
		Introduction
		Ovarian Tissue Freezing in Denmark
		Theorising Ovarian Tissue Freezing and Affective Temporalities
		Methods and Data
		Folded Futurities: Survival and (re)constitution of Reproductive Autonomy
		Extended Pasts: Navigating Risk, Trauma, and Fear
		Extended Past as (re)synchronisation with Former Body-Selves
		Concluding Reflections on the Affective Temporalities of Ovarian Tissue Freezing
		References
	4: Trans Narratives of Fertility Preservation: Constructing Experiential Expertise Through YouTube Vlogs
		Introduction
		Methodology
			Data Collection and Analysis
			Ethical Considerations
		Findings
			Vloggers as Experiential Experts
			Tensions Between Transitioning and Reproductive Futurity
			Mediating Intimacies Through Vlogging
			Gender, Identity, and the Hegemony of Cisnormative Knowledge
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Appendix: Inclusion Criteria
		References
	5: Fertility and Fragility: Social Egg Freezing and the ‘Potentially Maternal’ Subject
		Introduction
		Banking Eggs in the Neoliberal Refrigerator
		Technological Utopianism
		Egg Freezing and the Maternal
		References
Part II: Rights
	6: Reproduction and Beyond: Imaginaries of Uterus Transplantation in the Light of Embodied Histories of Living Life Without a Uterus
		Introduction
		Medical Materialities of UTx-IVF and the Routinization of Medical AHR
		Methodological and Analytic Framework
		Shaping Desires, Bodies, and Expectations. The Entanglements of Social Imaginaries
			The Same Options as Everyone Else: Imaginaries of Reproductive Trajectories
			Making Sense of UTx-IVF in the Light of Life Without a Uterus: Imaginaries of Female Embodiment
		Conclusion
		References
	7: Sized Out: Fatness, Fertility Care, and Reproductive Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand
		Introduction
		Rationing Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa: Clinical Priority Access Criteria and BMI
		Weighing in: Critical Perspectives on Weight Restrictions for Fertility Treatment
		The Study
		“It’s just all the heartbreaks and you’re on your own”: Gatekeeping Fertility Treatment
		“There’s a lot of judgement in our system”: Reproducing Inequity, Stigma and Shame
		“They don’t want to go beyond what they see”: Challenging Assumptions About Fatness and Infertility
		Where to for Weight-Centric Fertility Care: A Reproductive Justice Agenda for Assisted Reproduction
		References
	8: The Experience of Single Mothers by Choice Making Early Contact with Open-Identity or Private Sperm Donors and/or Donor Sibling Families in New Zealand
		Study Methods
		The Importance of Donor: Offspring Contact
		The Need for Clear Expectations and Boundaries in Donor: Offspring Contact
		Flexible Family Constructs
		Disclosure as an Ongoing and Challenging Process
		Conclusion
		References
	9: The Importance of a Genetic Link in Surrogacy Arrangements: Law, Public Opinion and Reconciling Conflict
		Introduction
		Surrogacy Regulation in New Zealand
		Revisiting the Biological Link Policy: ACART’s 2017 and 2018 Public Consultation
		The Public Perception: How Important Is the Genetic Link?
			Methodology and Structure of Survey
			The Public Opinion on the Genetic Link Requirement
			Other Discussions of Genetics in the Survey
				Question 61: Legal Parentage
				Question 64: Cancelling the Arrangement
				Questions 65 and 66: Changing Their Minds
		Commentary: How Important Is the Genetic Link?
			A Genetic Link Is Not Important…
			… Until It Is
			The Presumption of a Traditional Family Construct
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Relationships
	10: Surrogacy and the Informal Rulebook for Making Kin Through Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa New Zealand
		Introduction
		Research Context
		Guidelines and Rules for Navigating Surrogacy in New Zealand
		Study Findings
			Rule One: You Will Be More Successful If You Follow the Community’s ‘informal rules’
			Rule Two: You Have to Take A Leap of Faith
			Rule Three: Navigating ‘Socially Acceptable’ Norms Around Exclusivity
			Rule Four: Mitigating Risk Through (Informal) Legal Contracts
			Understanding Surrogacy Shadow-Legalities: Informal Rules and Kin-Making
		Conclusion
		References
	11: Constructing Gay Fatherhood in Known Donor-Lesbian Reproduction: ‘We get to live that life, we get to be parents’
		Introduction
		Changing Kinship Narratives: A Sociology of Personal Life
		Study Methods
		Identity Narratives: The Construction of Fathering and Parenting Selves
			Kole and Fraser
			Wilson and Johan
			Max and Patrick
		Concluding Discussion
		References
	12: Doing Reflexivity in Research on Donor Conception: Examining Moments of Bonding and Becoming
		Introduction
		Becoming Donor-Conceived
		Becoming Activist
		Becoming Researcher
		Conclusion
		References
	13: Reproductive Choices and Experiences in Planning for Parenthood and Managing Infertility
		Planning for Motherhood
			The ‘Right’ Age to Make a ‘Good’ Mother
			The ‘Right’ Personal and Relationship Factors to Be a ‘Good’ Mother
			Social Pressures Related to Being a “Good” Mother
			Implications of Pursuing the “Right” Conditions to Be a “Good” Parent
		When Motherhood Is Elusive
			Motherhood as Central to Identity as Women
			Investment in Being “Good” Mothers
			Moving On
		Becoming a Mother After Infertility
			Pregnancy, Birth and Early Parenting: Preparing for the Best, but Expecting the Worst
			Adjustment to Parenting
		Conclusion
		References
Index