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    Undoing Motherhood
    Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity

    Katherine M. Johnson (Author)

    9781978808683

    Hardback, published 14 April 2023

    204 pages, 6 bw, 4 tables
    21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.064 kg

    "Undoing Motherhood, in considering the multiple ways in which contemporary assisted reproduction complicates conventional views of motherhood, provides a deeply researched, thought-provoking study worthy of a broad, interdisciplinary readership."

    — Gender & Society

    "Undoing Motherhood beautifully weaves together the worlds of reproductive medicine and the law to explore how technology has complicated the meaning of motherhood. The book is a compelling story of how new reproductive technologies have profoundly affected our conceptions of parenthood."
     
    — Naomi R. Cahn, author of The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families

    "Undoing Motherhood is fascinating and unique; there is really no other published work that empirically examines the issues, debates, and contestations about maternity from the meso-level/organizational level that shape definitions about maternity and ensuing contestations when assisted reproductive technologies are involved."

    — Susan Markens, author of Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Motherhood

    In 1978 the world's first "test-tube baby" was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law.
     

    1. A New Maternity Uncertainty? 

    2. Conceiving Motherhood and the Repronormative Family 

    3. Losing My Genetics: Paternal versus Maternal Concerns 

    4. Contingent Maternities? Maternal Claims Making in Collaborative Reproduction
    5. Designating Maternity: Contested Motherhood and the Courts
    6. Adopting or Resisting New Maternities? 

    7. Concluding Thoughts: Maternity Somewhere in Between
    Acknowledgments 

    Notes
    References
    Index

     
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