Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and
complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross …

In 1978, the world's first “test-tube” baby was born via in vitro fertilization (IVF). The past 30
years have seen the rapid evolution of many other assisted reproductive technologies …

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational
surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how …

A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. The way that
children enter families has changed radically among upper middle class families. In the …

Making Families: Transnational Surrogacy, Queer Kinship, and Reproductive Justice. We
were seeking to bring into direct conversation three theoretical frameworks that have each …

Cross-border reproductive travel involves the movement of patients to undertake assisted
reproductive treatment through technologies, such as in vitro fertilization and associated …

Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the
Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of …

Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how
value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the …

Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to 'be
fruitful and multiply'or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a …