Donors : curious connections in donor conception /

What is expected of 21st Century egg and sperm donors, and how does being a donor impact on men's and women's own personal lives and relationships? How do donors navigate connections and relationships created by donation? What do these connections mean to them, and to the people around the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Nordqvist, Petra (Autor), Gilman, Leah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald studies in reproduction, culture and society
Temas:
Artificial insemination, Human > Social aspects.
Egg donors.
Sperm donors.
Sociology: family & relationships.
Social Science / Human Sexuality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • DONORS
  • Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society
  • DONORS: Curious Connections in Donor Conception
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • GLOSSARY
  • Introduction
  • The Expansion of Assisted Donor Conception, and Existing Research Into Donors' Experiences
  • Donating in the Twenty-First Century
  • 1. Donation in UK Law and Policy: Sociological Critique and Perspectives
  • UK Identity Release Policy: From 'Threat to Society' to 'Children's Right to Know'
  • Current Law and Policy: Who, How and Why?
  • Sociological Analysis and Critique of Current Policy
  • Agency, Choice and Self-Actualisation
  • 'Identity', Origins and the Formation of a Self
  • Individualism
  • Shifting the Gaze: From Individualism to Connectedness
  • Relatedness and Feeling Connected: Sociological Viewpoints
  • A Sense of Connection
  • Morality and Relatedness: The Importance of 'Doing the Right Thing'
  • Temporality and Relating
  • Conclusions
  • 2. Pathways to Donation
  • Beyond Clinic Categories: Multi-Faceted and Fuzzy Donation Pathways
  • Claudia
  • Paige
  • James
  • Gavin
  • Alison
  • Discussion
  • Donation Pathways Not Donor Types
  • Karina: Growing Personalisation
  • Ian: From Helping a Friend to Helping the Community
  • Iona and Claire: From Opt-in to Opt-out
  • Louis: Retrospective Transformation
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion: Understanding 'Being a Donor' as Practice, Not Identity
  • 3. Making Parents and Making People: The Ambivalent Role of 'Good' Donors
  • Introduction
  • Making Parents
  • Showing You 'Know Your Place'
  • The Gift of Parenthood
  • Making People
  • 'Not Just Any Old Blood Donation'
  • Being Available
  • The Ambivalent Status of 'Origins'
  • Getting the Balance Right: Negotiating Resemblances
  • Risky Resemblances
  • Resemblances Should Be Acknowledged
  • Weighing Gender in the Balance
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The Morality of Neutrality: The Promise and Problems of 'Letting Others Lead'
  • It's Fine Either Way: Neutral Attitudes Towards Future Contact
  • 'It Wouldn't Be Good for Me to Be Texting All the Time'
  • Playing Things by Ear: Flexible Approaches to the Nature of Contact
  • Being an Information Provider
  • The Moral Appeal of 'Letting Them Lead': Idealising Individual Choice and Empowering the Next Generation
  • There Is No 'Neutral' Way of Relating
  • Relationality and the Problem With Individual 'Empowerment'
  • The (Im)morality of Speaking for Others
  • Conclusions
  • 5. A Sense of Affinity: The Donor-Recipient Connection
  • A Sense of Affinity
  • Known Donors Relating to Recipients
  • Defining the Parameters of Relationships
  • Close but Not Too Close: Donors Bounding Relationships
  • Embeddedness and Time: The Pluripotency of Donation
  • Identity-Release Donors Relating to Recipients
  • A Sense of Disconnection?
  • Negotiating Unknown Connections
  • Conclusions

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