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Author Tober, Diane, author.

Title Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families / Diane Tober
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Contents Murphy Brown and the lesbian baby boom -- Technologies and politics of reproduction -- Semen to go: choosing conception alternatively -- Semen transactions: donor screening and the regulation of sexuality -- Grass roots eugenics and the fantasy donor -- Semen as gift, semen as goods: reproductive workers and the market in -- Altruism -- From "old eggs" to "Odysseus' journey"-the phenomenology of infertility -- What's alternative about family? -- From Murphy Brown to modern families -- Conclusion: towards a new biopolitechs of emerging families
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2019)
Subject Artificial insemination -- Social aspects
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
Single mothers.
Families.
Nuclear families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Nuclear families
Families
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
Single mothers
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813590820
0813590825
9780813590806
0813590809
0813590795
9780813590790