Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse
Expanding Reproductive Studies
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>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech. These technologies of reproduction are not experienced in isolation by most of the people who use them. However clinical, public health and social scientific research often reflects a parcelling out of reproduction into specialist areas of biomedical intervention. Studies tend to be bound to specific physiological events, technologies (particularly those that are more obviously technical or ‘modern’) and people – namely cis, heterosexual, white, middle-class women. Yet, with the ever-expanding horizon of reproductive technologies and the rapid development of the fertility industry, the reality is that many individuals will engage with more than one such technology at some point in their life.
>Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse presents dialogue between scholars on different reproductive technologies not only from a comparative empirical perspective, arguing that operating in disciplinary silos and working from narrow ideas about RTs and their meanings can put reproductive studies in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.
Foreword; Rene Almeling
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Technologies of Reproduction Across The Lifecourse; Katharine Dow and Victoria Boydell
- Reflection One: Knowledge; Victoria Boydell And Katharine Dow
- Section One: Reproductive Technologies across the Lifecourse
- Chapter 2. ‘I feel like some kind of namoona’: Examining sterilisation in women’s abortion trajectories in India; Rishita Nandagiri
- Chapter 3. When time becomes biological: experiences of age-related infertility and anticipation in reproductive medicine; Nolwenn Buhler
- Chapter 4. Delaying menopause, buying time? Positioning ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation technologies (OTCT) for delaying menopause in the context of women’s embodied reproductive choice and agency across the lifecourse; Susan Pickard
- Chapter 5. Chronic uncertainty and modest expectations: navigating fertility desires in the context of life with endometriosis; Nicky Hudson and Caroline Law
- Reflection Two: Choice; Victoria Boydell And Katharine Dow
- Section Two: Lifecourses of Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 6. Contraceptive Futures?: The hormonal body, populationism, and reproductive justice in the face of climate change; Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
- Chapter 7. Spectacular reproduction revealed: Genetic genealogy testing as a re(tro)productive technology; Sallie Han
- Chapter 8. ‘Getting the timing right’: Fertility apps and the temporalities of trying to conceive; Josie Hamper
- Chapter 9. Biogenetics and/at the Border: The Structural Intimacies of LGBTQ Transnational Kinship; Sonja Mackenzie
- Chapter 10. A Balancing Act: Situating reproductive technologies across time in the UK; Victoria Boydell
- Reflection Three: Relationality; Victoria Boydell And Katharine Dow
- Section Three: Reading Across Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 11. “Well, She’s Entitled to Her Choice”: Negotiating Technologies amidst Anticipatory Futures of Reproductive Potential; Ben Kasstan
- Chapter 12. Men as irrational variables in family planning? Understanding the landscape, technological advancements, and extending health psychology theories and models; Amanda Wilson
- Chapter 13. Inclusion, Exclusion, Anticipation: How the Politics of Intimate Relationships Structure Innovation; Ryan Whitacre
- Chapter 14. Integrating Reproductive and Nonreproductive Technologies: Egg Freezing and Medical Abortion; Lucy van de Wiel
- Afterword; Katharine Dow and Victoria
Victoria Boydell is a lecturer the University of Essex and Research Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research looks at the social and cultural dynamics around reproductive technologies and health care, including how to operationalize human rights and accountability.
Katharine Dow is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on public, ethical and political discourses around reproduction and she specialises in ethnographic research on connections between reproductive and environmental concerns and activism.