Book contents
- Why Gender?
- Why Gender?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- A Prefatory Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism
- Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
- Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism
- Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
- Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology
- Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care
- Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste
- Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family
- Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective
- Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
- Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar
- Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought
- Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender
- Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War
- Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2021
- Why Gender?
- Why Gender?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- A Prefatory Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism
- Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
- Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism
- Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
- Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology
- Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care
- Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste
- Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family
- Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective
- Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
- Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar
- Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought
- Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender
- Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War
- Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms
- Index
- References
Summary
Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, was born more than forty years ago in England. For Louise Brown’s infertile mother, Lesley, in vitro fertilization (IVF), developed at the University of Cambridge, was a “hope technology” (Franklin, 1997), allowing Lesley to overcome her tubal-factor infertility and nine years of heart-breaking involuntary childlessness. Lesley’s story involved a complex reproductive quest, in which she traveled with her working-class husband, John, from their home in Bristol to Bourn Hall Clinic in Cambridge to undergo the IVF procedures. Then, due to intense media scrutiny and religious opposition, Lesley and John were forced to travel to yet a third location, Oldham General Hospital in the North of England, for the secret delivery of baby Louise by Cesarean section on July 25, 1978.
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- Why Gender? , pp. 126 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021