Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights difference and diversity in relation to contemporary reproductive choices. The book focuses on women's and men's experiences of agency, control and negotiation within the context of cultural, medical, political, theoretical and lay ideologies of the reproductive process in contemporary Western societies.
Edited by:
S. Earle,
G. Letherby
Imprint: Palgrave
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781403902818
ISBN 10: 140390281X
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 October 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Tables and Figures Prologue Notes on Contributors Introducing Gender, Identity & Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby PART 1: REPRESENTING REPRODUCTION Introduction Representations of Motherhood; K.Woodward 'Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads': The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture; T.Freeman 'Battle of the Gametes': Cultural Representations of Medically Assisted Conception; G.Letherby Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 2: REPRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS: COOPERATION AND NEGOTIATION Birth Matters: Learning From My Past - A Midwifery for the Future; B.K.Rothman 'Your Dignity is Hung up at the Door': Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth; A.Bowes & T.M.Domokos The Quintessential Female Act?: Learning About Birth; J.Purkis Dutch Midwives: The Difference Between Image and Reality; E.van Teijlingen Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood & Identity; S.Earle Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 3: REPRODUCTIVE IDENTITIES: EXCLUSION AND RESISTANCE Introduction Woe the Women: DES Mothers and Daughters; D.Davidson 'I didn't think much of his bedside manner but he was very skilled at his job': Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility'; G.Letherby 'Cutting Out Motherhood': Childfree, Sterilised Women; A.Campbell Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of Their Experiences of Menopause; G.Wadsworth & E.Green Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading Reflecting on Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby
SARAH EARLE is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at University College Northampton. She has published widely on women's reproductive health and is Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Hunam Reproduction Study Group. She has also published on the sociology of disability, sexuality, and health care education. She is co-editor of the forthcoming text An Introduction to the Sociology of Health: A Textbook for Nurses, and co-author of Punters in Cyberspace: Men Who Pay for Sex. - GAYLE LETHERBY is Associate Head of Subject and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Justice, Coventry University, UK. She has published widely in the areas of reproductive identity and experience, motherhood and non-motherhood, working and learning in higher education and feminist research and epistemology. Recent publications include Feminist Research in Theory and Practice (2003).
