Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

by Laura Mamo

Book Overview

Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. Queering Reproduction is an important sociological analysis of lesbians' use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians who have been or are seeking to become pregnant, Laura Mamo describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234078X
• ISBN13: 9780822340782
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"