Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 9)

Bonaccorso, Monica M.E.

ISBN 10: 1845451120 / ISBN 13: 9781845451127

Published by Berghahn Books, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 9)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845451120
• ISBN 13: 9781845451127
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.

About the Author

Monica M.E. Bonaccorso is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Durham, following a position as Affiliated Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.