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Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men's reproductive concerns or contributions to women's reproductive health: Men are clearly viewed as the "second sex" in reproduction. This volume argues that the marginalization of men is an oversight of considerable proportions. It sheds new light on male reproduction from a cross-cultural, global perspective, focusing not only upon men in Europe and America but also those in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Both heterosexual and homosexual, married and unmarried men are featured in this volume, which assesses concerns ranging from masculinity and sexuality to childbirth and fatherhood.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. The Missing Gamete? Ten Common Mistakes or Lies about Men's Sexual Destiny
Matthew C. Gutmann
Chapter 2. Killer Sperm: Masculinity and the Essence of Male Hierarchies
Lisa Jean Moore
Chapter 3. Gender, Masculinity, and Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives
Matthew R. Dudgeon and Marcia C. Inhorn
Chapter 4. Men's Influences on Women's Reproductive Health: Medical Anthropological Perspectives
Matthew R. Dudgeon and Marcia C. Inhorn
Chapter 5. Manhood and Meaning in the Marketing of the "Male Pill"
Laury Oaks
Chapter 6. Reproductive Paradoxes in Vietnam: Masculinity, Contraception, and Abortion in Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Thuy Hanh
Chapter 7. Reproductive Politics in Southwest China: Deconstructing a Minority Male-dominated Perspective on Reproduction
Yen Fang Tzu
Chapter 8. The Sex in the Sperm: Male Infertility and its Challenges to Masculinity in an Israeli-Jewish Context
Helene Goldberg
Chapter 9. "It's a bit unmanly in a way": Men and Infertility in Denmark
Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
Chapter 10. Male Genital Cutting: Masculinity, Reproduction, and Male Infertility Surgeries in Egypt and Lebanon
Marcia C. Inhorn
Chapter 11. "We are pregnant": Israeli Men and the Paradoxes of Sharing
Tsipy Ivry
Chapter 12. Making Room for Daddy: Men's "Belly Talk" in the Contemporary United States
Sallie Han
Chapter 13. Husband-assisted Birth among the Rarámuri of Northern Mexico
Janneli F. Miller
Chapter 14. Stories of Fatherhood: Kinship in the Making
Maruska la Cour Mosegaard
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
