The Reproductive Industry

Intimate Experiences and Global Processes

Edited by Vera Mackie; Nicola J. Marks and Sarah Ferber - Contributions by Jane Adams; Sarah Ferber; Sarah Franklin; Jaya Keaney; Vera Mackie; Nicola J. Marks; Vasudha Mohanka; Robyn Morris; Damien W. Riggs; Sonja Van Wichelen and Andrea Whittaker

Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction.

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Pages: 198 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

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Series: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies

Subjects: Psychology / Human Sexuality

The Reproductive Industry

Intimate Experiences and Global Processes

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Summary

Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 198 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-7065-7 • Hardback • July 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-7066-4 • eBook • July 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies

Subjects: Psychology / Human Sexuality

Author

Vera Mackie is senior professor of Asian and international studies and director of the Center for Critical Human Rights Research at University of Wollongong.

Nicola J. Marks is senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong.

Sarah Ferber is professor of history at the University of Wollongong.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Body and the Globe

Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Halves?: IVF in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s

Chapter 2: Situating India in the Global Assisted Reproduction Industry

Chapter 3: “A Cloak and Dagger Situation”: Artificial Insemination, Secrecy and Openness in New Zealand, 1950s to Early 2000s

Chapter 4: An Examination of “Just in Case” Arguments as They are Applied to Fertility Preservation for Transgender People

Chapter 5: ‘The Queer Multiracial Family: Figuring Race in Donor-Assisted Conception

Chapter 6: ‘IVF and the “Promise of Happiness”

Chapter 7: Private International Law and Cross-Border Surrogacy: The Role of Analogy

Chapter 8: “Stop Thai Women’s Wombs from Becoming the World’s Womb”: Reproductive Nationalism and the Closure of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

Chapter 9: Modes of Mobility: Tracing the Routes of Reproductive Travel in the Asia-Pacific Region

Reviews

The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes, comprises an unconventional compilation of papers that sits at the cutting edge of reproductive ethics. Ultimately, this book is not only a well-organized and stimulating scientific publication, but also a fascinating read.

— Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

This exemplary volume charts both the promises and fragilities of assisted reproduction as it is being choreographed within and between societies across the globe. Through rich ethnographic, historical, and legal accounts, the collection shines a much-needed light on the ways in which technologies are reconfiguring kin and families, including for transgender people and queer communities. The volume’s focus on the Asia-Pacific is also novel and timely, given regional concerns over low fertility amidst the exploitation of surrogate women’s bodies. In short, this is a must-read volume for anyone interested in gender, technology, and globally mediated quests for conception
— Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University

The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes is a provocative book that challenges the happy-ever-after narratives around assisted reproductive technologies to expose the inequalities of power, gender, race and sexuality on which this global trade depends.
— Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University

This book fills a vacuum in the archival mapping of the emergence and rise of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) globally, and locally…. Ultimately, this edited volume is an important intervention into the legacies of mobility and travel across the global South and North in emerging technological interventions. The volume is a reminder that the reproductive self and body still grapples with questions of civilizational and racial conflicts… [T]his is a valuable volume and is a must-read for scholars and practitioners of reproductive health.

— Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography