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Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland : Presence of Absence /
Infertility stories show us how the once seamless connection between marriage, motherhood, sex and procreation in Ireland is contested. Through the stories of women and men facing infertility, the book brings to life the forces that shape the idea of motherhood and the way many women see themselves,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Project MUSE,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- Introduction : conceiving the presence of absence
- Famine's traces : hunger for motherhood, family, fertility
- Motherhood contested : re-thinking the woman/mother paradigm in Ireland
- Conceiving nonconformity : challenging hetero-normative meanings of (in)fertility
- Conceiving of grieving
- Eggs, sperm and conceptions of a moral nature
- Conceptions of contention : donor challenge to the dimensions of relatedness
- Embryos and the ethics of ambivalence
- Conclusion : confirmation and contestation in a changing Ireland
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Notes and references
- Index.