Making parents : the ontological choreography of reproductive technologies /
"Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and t...
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Inside technology.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : making parents : selective pronatalism, ontological choreography, a biomedical mode of reproduction, methods, reading this book, and where I stand
- I. Disciplinary stakes
- 1. Science and society : some varieties of science and technology studies
- 2. Fertile ground : feminists theorize reproductive technologies
- II. Ontological choreography
- 3. Techniques of normalization : (re)producing the ART clinic
- 4. Is man to father as woman is to mother? : masculinity, gender performativity, and social (dis)order
- 5. Strategic naturalizing : kinship, race, and ethnicity
- 6. Agency through objectification : subjectivity and technology
- III. Economies.
