
Relative Strangers
Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception
By: Petra Nordqvist, Carol Smart
Hardcover | 4 February 2014 | Edition Number 1
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In this path breaking book, the authors explore the lived reality of donor conception in families by using in-depth interviews with parents and grandparents of donor conceived children. With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life. This book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in the family, kinship, gender and sexuality, new reproductive technologies, and genetics.
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"This book isn't a dry academic tome ... it is accessible and can be read by anyone with an interest in donor conception. I would strongly recommend it to parents of donor-conceived children to whom it could be enormously reassuring." - Sarah Norcross, BioNews
"The insights gained in the in-depth interviews with members of lesbian and heterosexual couple families who have used donor conception are beyond anything I have ever come across before, and should be enormously helpful in re-assessing both the policy and practice of the range of support that needs to be in place at every stage of the donor conception family journey." - Olivia's View blog
"The book is very interesting and a good illustration of some of some of the changes, dynamics and fluidities of family life." - Network: Magazine of the British Sociological Association
"Intelligent and informed reflection on how the interviewees themselves have come to work on the relevant issues, how their own uses of metaphors relating to genes and the contribution of donor gametes have been shaped by their experiences, and how this work reflects on family life and kinship more widely." - Journal of Social Policy
'It is not often that an academic book can be described as truly delightful, but, in the case of Relative Strangers such a description is certainly appropriate.' Sociology of Health & Illness
ISBN: 9781137297631
ISBN-10: 1137297638
Series: Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Published: 4th February 2014
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 206
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.39
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