Reframing Reproduction

1. Introduction: Conceiving of Postmodern Reproduction
Meredith Nash

Part I. Contested ‘Choices’ and Challenges

2. Towards a More Inclusive Framework for Understanding Fertility Barriers
Katherine M. Johnson, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Shreffler

3. Constructions of the ‘Best Interests of the Child’ in New South Wales Parliamentary Debates on Surrogacy
Catherine Ruth Collins, Damien W. Riggs, Clemence Due

4. ‘Diseases’, ‘Defects’, ‘Abnormalities’, and ‘Conditions’: Discursive Tensions in Prenatal Screening
Meredith Vanstone, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Jeff Nisker

5. The Limits of ‘Choice’: Abortion and Entrepreneurialism
Kate Gleeson

6. Gaps in Post-Birth Care in Neoliberal Times: Evidence from Canada
Cecilia Benoit, Camille Stengel, Rachel Phillips, Maria Zadoroznyj, Sarah Berry

Part II. Reproductive Bodies and Identities

7. Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment
Deborah Lupton

8. Picturing Postpartum Body Image: A Photovoice Study
Meredith Nash

9. ‘My Doctor Told Me I Can Still Have Children But …’: Contradictions in Women’s Reproductive Health Experiences after Spinal Cord Injury
Heather Dillaway, Catherine Lysack

10. Taking a Long View of the ‘Right Time’ for Fatherhood
Fiona Shirani

11. Anticipating and ‘Experiencing’ Birth: Men, Essentialisms, and Reproductive Realms
Tina Miller

Part III. The (Global) Reproductive Marketplace

12. Putting ‘Daddy’ in the Cart: Ordering Sperm Online
Lisa Jean Moore, Marianna Grady

13. Reciprocity in the Donation of Reproductive Oöcytes
Margaret Boulos, Ian Kerridge, Catherine Waldby

14. Expressed Breast Milk as Commodity: Disembodied Motherhood and Involved Fatherhood
Victoria Team, Kath Ryan

15. What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Young Women’s Online Conversations about Quitting the Pill
Elizabeth Arveda Kissling

16. Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?
Meredith Nash

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Feminism, Sociology of the Body, Medical Sociology, Reproductive Medicine