Making Bodies, Persons and Families

Download or read book Making Bodies, Persons and Families written by Willemijn de Jong and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The far-reaching social implications of "artificial fertilisation" are an understudied phenomenon in Switzerland and Russia. Public acceptance of in vitro fertilisation is increasing, but to have a child with this technology, and without sex, is still often imbued with secrecy and taboos. The book sheds light on the cultural and social production of gendered bodies, persons and families in Russia, Switzerland and Germany in the context of reproductive technologies, with a special focus on normalisation practices.