On Having an Own Child

Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-32577-0 (ISBN)

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How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This title considers why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI and more).

How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people w

Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin

Introduction -- The wanting of a baby: nature, history, culture, and society -- The wanting of a baby: desire, despair, hope, and regret -- The child that is wanted: perfection and commodification -- The child that is wanted: kinship and the body of evidence -- The child that is wanted: reading race and the global child -- Conclusion: coming to grief in theory

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-367-32577-2 / 0367325772
ISBN-13	978-0-367-32577-0 / 9780367325770
Zustand	Neuware