Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies

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Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the "ontological choreography" at ART clinics - the dynamics by which technical, scientific, kinship, gender, emotional, legal, political, financial, and other matters are ...
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Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the "ontological choreography" at ART clinics - the dynamics by which technical, scientific, kinship, gender, emotional, legal, political, financial, and other matters are coordinated - using ethnographic data to address questions usually treated in the abstract. Reproductive technologies, says Thompson, are part of the increasing tendency to turn social problems into biomedical questions and can be used as a lens to see the resulting changes in the relations between science and society.
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"Charis Thompson's Making Parents is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary aspect of our world: the technological, legal, and moral complexities of becoming a parent in the twnety-first century. Throughout, Thompson maintains a wonderful double vision: seeing as a remarkably gifted, scientifically informed ethnographer and watching anxious and hopeful doctors,nurses, and would-be parents with compassion and self-reflection. It is, to be sure, a book that draws deeply on science studies and feminism, but it carries that work to new spaces and in new directions. It is an added and unusual bonus that she delivers the scholarship with grace, humor,and sparkle." Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics,Harvard University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780262201568
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/2005
  • Series: Inside Technology Series
  • Pages: 380
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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Charis Thompson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Women's Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.

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Table of Contents

Introduction : making parents : selective pronatalism, ontological choreography, a biomedical mode of reproduction, methods, reading this book, and where I stand 1
I Disciplinary stakes
1 Science and society : some varieties of science and technology studies 31
2 Fertile ground : feminists theorize reproductive technologies 55
II Ontological choreography
3 Techniques of normalization : (re)producing the ART clinic 79
4 Is man to father as woman is to mother? : masculinity, gender performativity, and social (dis)order 117
5 Strategic naturalizing : kinship, race, and ethnicity 145
6 Agency through objectification : subjectivity and technology 179
III Economies
7 Sex, drugs, and money : the public, privacy, and the monopoly of desperation 207
8 The sacred and profane human embryo : a biomedical mode of (re)production? 245
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