What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and
cultural valences are increasingly perceived as bound up in environmental issues. This …

Despite attempts at highlighting continuities across the reproductive process from
conception to childcare, reproduction and parenting still tend to be studied as a collection of …

Reproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet
the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of …

Through examining childbearing in California's Silicon Valley, this article describes how
seeking “self-actualization” has become a rite of passage for contemporary childbearing …

Social researchers of childbirth have argued that techno-medical routines of managing
childbirth risk are underpinned by worst case scenarios involving disastrous deliveries, with …

The critical sociological literature has explored social prescriptions on women's reproductive
lives, trajectories, outcomes and aftermaths. However, little attention has been given to how …

Background The high number of IVF procedures performed in Israel has had an unforeseen
consequence: accumulation of large amounts of surplus frozen embryos. After five years that …

Pregnancy is a processual dialectic that involves continual acts of tactical, responsive, and
creative accommodation by pregnant women. This article is a phenomenological …

This article explores the way that surrogacy and normal pregnancy share cultural
assumptions about pregnancy. Through a juxtaposition of our ethnographic studies of two …

The disposition decision is a frequently unresolved issue for many IVF users with surplus
frozen embryos (SFEs), and this study draws attention to their experiences and moral work …