Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Murphy Brown and the Lesbian Baby Boom 1
5. 2. Technologies and Politics of Reproduction 14
6. 3. Semen to Go: Choosing Conception Alternatively 30
7. 4. Semen Transactions: Donor Screening and the Regulation of Sexuality 51
8. 5. Grassroots Eugenics and the Fantasy Donor 71
9. 6. Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism 86
10. 7. From “Old Eggs” to “Odysseus’s Journey”: The Phenomenology of Infertility 105
11. 8. What’s Alternative about Family? 129
12. 9. From Murphy Brown to Modern Families 157
13. 10. Conclusion: Toward a New BioPoliTechs of Emerging Families 185
14. Afterword 193
15. Acknowledgments 195
16. Notes 199
17. References 203
18. Index 215
19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 221