Infertility Around the Globe

New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies

By: Marcia Inhorn (Editor), Frank van Balen (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it is the first book to investigate the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Provocative and incisive, it is the most substantial work to date on the subject of infertility.

With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors address a far-reaching array of topics: why infertility has been neglected in population studies, how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame squarely on women's shoulders, how infertility and its treatment transform family dynamics and relationships, and the distribution of medical and marital power. The chapters present informed and sophisticated investigations into cultural perceptions of infertility in numerous countries, including China, India, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the nations of Europe.

Poised to become the quintessential reference on infertility from an international social science perspective, Infertility around the Globe makes a powerful argument that involuntary childlessness is a complex phenomenon that has far-reaching significance worldwide.

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"The groundbreaking, interdisciplinary contributions in infertility Around the Globe offer new and challenging insights into the phenomenon of infertility. This innovative collection will change how infertility is theorized and how intervention programs are designed in social science, international public health, and medical circles; indeed, it will become the primary source book for international and comparative research on infertility in a variety of cultural settings. Reading this book was a distinct pleasure."-Lynn Morgan, co-editor of Fetal Subjects/Feminist Positions

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Discourses and Debates
Introduction: Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences
The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle Margarete
Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility
The Psychologization of Infertility
Gender and Body Politics
Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency
Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States
Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern
Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context Catherine
Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica
The Infertility Belt
Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives
Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields
Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique Trudie
Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Globalizing Technologies
The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt
Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel
The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics
Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India
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