3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Part I. Discourses and Debates
4. 1. Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences 3
5. 2. The Uses of a “Disease”: Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle 33
6. 3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility 52
7. 4. The Psychologization of Infertility 79
8. Part II. Gender and Body Politics
9. 5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency 101
10. 6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States 119
11. 7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam 134
12. 8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women’s Lives in Context 152
13. 9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica 171
14. Part III. The Infertility Belt
15. 10. Problematizing Fertility: “Scientific” Accounts and Chadian Women’s Narratives 193
16. 11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields 215
17. 12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique 233
18. 13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa 247
19. Part IV. Globalizing Technologies
20. 14. The “Local” Confronts the “Global”: Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt 263
21. 15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel 283
22. 16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the “New” Eugenics 298
23. 17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India 315
24. Contributors 335
25. Index 341