Infertility Around the Globe

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ISBN: 9780520231375 | 0520231376
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Copyright: 5/1/2002

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This original volume reveals the suffering experienced by infertile couples, and especially women, around the globe. It questions whether new reproductive technologies to overcome infertility are a blessing or a curse in resource-poor societies.

PART I DISCOURSES AND DEBATES

(98)

Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences

(30)

Frank van Balen

Marcia C. Inhorn

The Uses of a ``Disease'': Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle

(19)

Margarete Sandelowski

Sheryl de Lacey

Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility

(27)

Charis M. Thompson

The Psychologization of Infertility

(20)

Frank van Balen

PART II GENDER AND BODY POLITICS

(92)

Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency

101

(18)

Arthur L. Greil

Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States

119

(15)

Gay Becker

Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam

134

(18)

Melissa J. Pashigian

Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context

152

(19)

Catherine Kohler Riessman

Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica

171

(20)

Gwynne L. Jenkins

Silvia Vargas Obando

Jose Badilla Navas

PART III THE INFERTILITY BELT

191

(70)

Problematizing Fertility: ``Scientific'' Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives

193

(22)

Lori Leonard

Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields

215

(18)

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique

233

(14)

Trudie Gerrits

Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa

247

(14)

Johanne Sundby

PART IV GLOBALIZING TECHNOLOGIES

261

(74)

The ``Local'' Confronts the ``Global'': Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt

263

(20)

Marcia C. Inhorn

Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel

283

(15)

Susan Martha Kahn

The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the ``New'' Eugenics

298

(17)

Lisa Handwerker

Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India

315

(20)

Aditya Bharadwaj

Contributors

335

(6)

Index

341

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