Full Description
The legal and societal implications for individuals experiencing infertility and considering various types of assisted reproductive technology have become increasingly complex in recent decades. New regulations surrounding surrogacy agreements have attempted to provide more protection to both surrogate mothers and prospective parents. To better understand this nuanced experience, this multidisciplinary volume focuses on families navigating these methods of reproduction.
In Pursuit of Parenthood: Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology, and Surrogacy covers a wide array of topics including infertility (e.g., psychological consequences, the social context, and relationship coping; surrogacy (international and domestic surrogacy, formal and informal surrogacy negotiations, LGBTQ+ families choosing surrogacy,) and fertility treatments (decisions to pursue in vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, and sperm donation, including financial, religious, and political limitations).
Contents
Chapter 1. Endorsement of Traditional Gender Beliefs and Aspirations about Family Formation among Chinese Heterosexual and Sexual Minority International Students; Yanbin Barbara Li and Charlotte J. Patterson
Chapter 2. Sexual Orientation, Parenthood Aspirations, and Involuntary Childlessness in Israel and the U.S.A.; Doyle P. Tate and Geva Shenkman
Chapter 3. The Sociocultural Aspects of Infertility in African Countries: A Scoping Review; Idah Moyo and Limkile Mpofu
Chapter 4. From Infertility to Childlessness: An Explanatory Framework for Declining Natality; Ji-Young Lee
Chapter 5. Career is Secondary to Pursuing Motherhood Through Assisted Reproductive Technology: Evidences from India; Seema Lall
Chapter 6. Re-Imagining the Embryo: Relational Metaphors in Assisted Reproductive Technology; Catarina Delaunay and Luís Gouveia
Chapter 7. From Genetic Loss to Parental Hope: Decision-Making in Navigating Gamete Donation; Mariana V. Martins, Catarina Rodrigues, Ana Nogueira, and Maria Emília Costa
Chapter 8. Single Mothers' Accounts of Assisted Reproduction, Relationality, and Intimacy in Aotearoa New Zealand; Rhonda M. Shaw
Chapter 9. Resigning Oneself to Resort to Another Woman to Have a Child: Procreative Trajectories of Canadian Women Who Became Mothers Through Egg Donation or Surrogacy; Kévin Lavoie, Roxane Guay, and Isabel Côté
Chapter 10. Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy, and Same-Sex Parenthood in India: Redefining Family and Care Labour Dynamics; Pooja Kapoor and Shikha Vasishta
Chapter 11. Harmless "Preferences"? How the Surrogacy Matching Process Legalizes Discrimination; Hillary L. Berk
Chapter 12. The Lived Experience of Time: Irish and Indian Adoptive Parents in Transition to Parenthood; Sahana Mitra and Valerie O'Brien
