Reproductive Citizenship

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Reproductive Citizenship and Meanings of Infertility

   • Rhonda M. Shaw

   Pages 1-28

3. Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Affective Animacy and Temporalities in Danish Women’s Accounts of Cryopreserved Embryos

      • Michael Nebeling Petersen

      Pages 31-50

   3. The Affective Temporalities of Ovarian Tissue Freezing: Hopes, Fears, and the Folding of Embodied Time in Medical Fertility Preservation

      • Anna Sofie Bach

      Pages 51-73

   4. Trans Narratives of Fertility Preservation: Constructing Experiential Expertise Through YouTube Vlogs

      • Alex Ker, Rhonda M. Shaw

      Pages 75-100

   5. Fertility and Fragility: Social Egg Freezing and the ‘Potentially Maternal’ Subject

      • Julie Stephens

      Pages 101-123

4. Rights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Reproduction and Beyond: Imaginaries of Uterus Transplantation in the Light of Embodied Histories of Living Life Without a Uterus

      • Lisa Guntram

      Pages 127-152

   3. Sized Out: Fatness, Fertility Care, and Reproductive Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand

      • George Parker, Jade Le Grice

      Pages 153-178

   4. The Experience of Single Mothers by Choice Making Early Contact with Open-Identity or Private Sperm Donors and/or Donor Sibling Families in New Zealand

      • Rochelle Trail, Sonja Goedeke

      Pages 179-201

   5. The Importance of a Genetic Link in Surrogacy Arrangements: Law, Public Opinion and Reconciling Conflict

      • Debra Wilson

      Pages 203-225

5. Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Surrogacy and the Informal Rulebook for Making Kin Through Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa New Zealand

      • Hannah Gibson

      Pages 229-251

   3. Constructing Gay Fatherhood in Known Donor-Lesbian Reproduction: ‘We get to live that life, we get to be parents’

      • Nicola Surtees

      Pages 253-277

   4. Doing Reflexivity in Research on Donor Conception: Examining Moments of Bonding and Becoming

      • Giselle Newton

      Pages 279-301

   5. Reproductive Choices and Experiences in Planning for Parenthood and Managing Infertility

      • Sonja Goedeke, Maria Mackintosh, Lara Grace

      Pages 303-328

6. Back Matter

   Pages 329-337

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This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of reproductive citizenship in relation to decision-making about a range of issues: from fertility preservation and the desirability of family creation as a normative expectation of social participation, to how families manage and negotiate engagement with providers of reproductive materials and services around information disclosure and contact, and how they consider their social obligations and responsibilities in relation to the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART).

• STS
• sexuality studies
• cultural studies
• bioethics
• assisted human reproduction
• family relationships
• family change
• assisted reproductive technologies
• ART
• reproductive economy
• IVF

• School of Social and Cultural Studies, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  Rhonda M. Shaw

Rhonda M. Shaw is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include the sociology of morality and ethics, family life and intimate relationships, and empirical research on the donation and provision of human biological materials and services. Rhonda is the editor of Bioethics Beyond Altruism: Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials (2017).

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