Reconceiving the Second Sex

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 12
• Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, a... Lees meer

European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 14
• Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulate... Lees meer

Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Irene Maffi

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 46
• After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party 'Ennahdha' allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas abou... Lees meer

Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 36
• In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlyi... Lees meer

Globalized Fatherhood

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 27
• Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, th... Lees meer

Inconceivable Iran

Soraya Tremayne

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 50
• Celebrating the 50th volume of the landmark Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series, this book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproduc... Lees meer

Conceiving Kinship

Monica M E Bonaccorso

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 9
• Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation c... Lees meer

Good Enough Mothers

Jm López

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 49
• Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of m... Lees meer

Privileges of Birth

Jennifer J M Rogerson

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 44
• Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shape... Lees meer

Reproductive Disruptions

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 11
• Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss,... Lees meer

How Is a Man Supposed to Be a Man?

Robin A Hadley

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 48
• The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. C... Lees meer

Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 8
• Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a... Lees meer

Nighttime Breastfeeding

Cecília Tomori

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 26
• Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so... Lees meer

The Anthropology of the Fetus

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 37
• As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understa... Lees meer

Sexual Self-Fashioning

Rahil Roodsaz

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 51
• Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Wester... Lees meer

Fatness and the Maternal Body

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 22
• Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in t... Lees meer

Being a Sperm Donor

Sebastian Mohr

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 40
• What does it mean to be a man in our biomedical day and age? Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a S... Lees meer

Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 8
• Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a... Lees meer

Kin, Gene, Community

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 19
• Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the wor... Lees meer

Conceptions

Aditya Bharadwaj

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 34
• Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These 'conceptions' are key to und... Lees meer

Ageing Without Children

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 6
• Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. With... Lees meer

Reproductive Disruptions

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 11
• Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss,... Lees meer

Globalized Fatherhood

• Hardcover | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 27
• Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, th... Lees meer

Militant Lactivism?

Charlotte Faircloth

• Paperback | Engels | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P | nr. 24
• Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a... Lees meer