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Conceiving kinship : procreation, family and assisted conception in South Europe

Bonaccorso, M.

Authors

M. Bonaccorso



Abstract

Focusing on Southern Europe, this compelling study adds a new perspective to the currently hotly debated issues of kinship, gender and modern medical technologies. It challenges established ideas of cultural continuities and discontinuities within the European context and offers fresh insights into longstanding questions regarding gender and kin relatedness. The study is further enhanced by the analysis of the wider contexts of assisted conception: the media, political debates and the clinics where treatment takes place.

Citation

Bonaccorso, M. (2007). Conceiving kinship : procreation, family and assisted conception in South Europe. (New ed.). Berghahn Journals

Book Type Authored Book
Publication Date Jan 1, 2007
Deposit Date Jan 10, 2008
Publisher Berghahn Journals
Series Title Fertility, reproduction and sexuality
Edition New ed.
Keywords Anthropology, Cultural studies, Gender studies.
Publisher URL http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BonaccorsoConceiving
Additional Information “Conceiving Kinship provides intriguing and important insights into a period of rapid and unregulated development in assisted conception in Italy in the late 1990s. The book draws us into detailed and sensitive accounts of couples’ intentions, assumptions and actions during a time of shifting expectations about parenthood and the ways that one might become a parent. Rich interview and conversational material is gathered from heterosexual as well as homosexual couples in relation to a wide range of assisted conception scenarios. This detailed ethnographic fieldwork, combined with a sustained analytical interrogation, makes for a significant contribution to the complex mosaic of practices and values which lie beneath the Euro-American kinship label. It is one which will become an important reference point for future debates about assisted conception in Europe and beyond.” — Robert Simpson, Reader, University of Durham


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