Being a sperm donor : masculinity, sexuality, and biosociality in Denmark /

What does it mean to be a man in our biomedical day and age' Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have bec...

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Main Author: Mohr, Sebastian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 40.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: being a sperm donor
  • Becoming a sperm donor: conceptual pathways
  • Regimes of living: donating semen and the pleasure of morality
  • Affective investments: masturbation and the pleasure of control
  • Biosocial relatedness: being connected and the pleasure of responsibility
  • The limits of biosocial subjectivation: male shame and the displeasure of gender normativity
  • Conclusion: biosocial subjectivation reconsidered.