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Infertility around the Globe Infertility around the Globe New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies EDITED BY Marcia C. Inhorn Frank van Balen UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley LosAngeles London UniversityofCaliforniaPress BerkeleyandLosAngeles,California UniversityofCaliforniaPress,Ltd. London,England (cid:1)2002by TheRegentsoftheUniversityofCalifornia LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Infertilityaroundtheglobe:newthinkingonchildlessness,gen- der,andreproductivetechnologies/editedbyMarciaC.Inhorn, FrankvanBalen. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-520-23108-2(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN0-520-23137-6 (paper:alk.paper) 1.Infertility—Developingcountries. 2.Infertility—Social aspects. 3.Infertility—Psycholgicalaspects. [DNLM:1.Infertility—psychology 2.Cross-Cultural Comparison. 3.Feminism. 4.ReproductionTechniques.WP 570I43352001] I.Inhorn,MarciaClaire,1957– II.Balen, Frankvan. RC889.I56132001 616.6'92—dc21 2001007069 ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Thepaperusedinthispublicationisbothacid-freeandtotallychlorine-free(TCF).Itmeets theminimumrequirementsofANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992(R1997)(PermanenceofPaper). In memory of Dr. Mohammed Mehanna and his dreams of advancing assisted conception in Egypt m.c.i. In memory of my beloved wife, Pauline f.v.b. CONTENTS PART I •DISCOURSES AND DEBATES / 1 1. Introduction.InterpretingInfertility:AViewfromtheSocialSciences FrankvanBalenandMarciaC.Inhorn / 3 2. TheUsesofa“Disease”:InfertilityasRhetoricalVehicle MargareteSandelowskiandSheryldeLacey / 33 3. FertileGround:FeministsTheorizeInfertility CharisM.Thompson / 52 4. ThePsychologizationofInfertility FrankvanBalen / 79 PART II •GENDER AND BODY POLITICS / 99 5. InfertileBodies:Medicalization,Metaphor,andAgency ArthurL.Greil / 101 6. DecidingWhethertoTellChildrenaboutDonorInsemination: AnUnresolvedQuestionintheUnitedStates GayBecker / 119 7. ConceivingtheHappyFamily: InfertilityandMaritalPoliticsinNorthernVietnam MelissaJ.Pashigian / 134 8. PositioningGenderIdentityinNarrativesofInfertility: SouthIndianWomen’sLivesinContext CatherineKohlerRiessman / 152 9. Childlessness,Adoption,andMilagrosdeDiosinCostaRica GwynneL.JenkinswithSilviaVargasObandoandJose´BadillaNavas / 171 viii CONTENTS PART III •THE INFERTILITY BELT / 191 10. ProblematizingFertility: “Scientific”AccountsandChadianWomen’sNarratives LoriLeonard / 193 11. IsInfertilityanUnrecognizedPublicHealthandPopulationProblem? TheViewfromtheCameroonGrassfields PamelaFeldman-Savelsberg / 215 12. InfertilityandMatrilineality: TheExceptionalCaseoftheMacuaofMozambique TrudieGerrits / 233 13. InfertilityandHealthCareinCountrieswithLessResources: CaseStudiesfromSub-SaharanAfrica JohanneSundby / 247 PART IV •GLOBALIZING TECHNOLOGIES / 261 14. The“Local”Confrontsthe“Global”: InfertileBodiesandNewReproductiveTechnologiesinEgypt MarciaC.Inhorn / 263 15. RabbisandReproduction: TheUsesofNewReproductiveTechnologiesamongUltraorthodoxJewsinIsrael SusanMarthaKahn / 283 16. ThePoliticsofMakingModernBabiesinChina: ReproductiveTechnologiesandthe“New”Eugenics LisaHandwerker / 298 17. ConceptionPolitics: MedicalEgos,MediaSpotlights,andtheContestoverTest-TubeFirstsinIndia AdityaBharadwaj / 315 contributors / 335 index / 341 PART I Discourses and Debates

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