Introduction - Making Parents: Reproductive Technologies and Parenting Culture across Borders

Faircloth, Charlotte; Gürtin, Zeynep B.

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“…In another special issue, with the contribution of colleagues from across these fields, we have thought specifically about the 'ways in which an increasingly globalized "parenting culture" creates an appetite -explored in different national contexts as well as transnationally -for reproductive technologies, as well as the ways in which these same technologies for "making parents" shape that very culture of "doing parenting". ' (see Faircloth and Gürtin 2017b). The articles brought together here continue and expand upon that conversation, this time focusing specifically on how intentions, expectations and the burgeoning technologies of reproductive 'assistance' contribute to changing and enduring conceptions of parenthood -in particular of good parenthood -in the 21st Century.…”

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Conceiving contemporary parenthood: imagining, achieving and accounting for parenthood in new family forms

Gürtin

Faircloth

2018

Anthropology & Medicine

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Conceiving contemporary parenthood: imagining, achieving and accounting for parenthood in new family forms

Gürtin

Faircloth

2018

Anthropology & Medicine

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“…The importance of biological parenthood, i.e., genetic relatedness, has deep cultural and biological roots [ 7 , 8 ]. The desire for biological parenting and the importance attached to it overrides other possibilities such as adoption or the use of donor gametes as alternatives to reproductive technologies aimed at the fulfilment of ‘biological parenthood’ [ 9 , 10 , 11 ].…”

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And When I Die: Theory of Planned Behavior as Applied to Sperm Cryopreservation

Gonen

2021

Healthcare

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The present study investigates fertility intentions of men, aged 18–59, as expressed in willingness to cryopreserve sperm for future use in procreation. An economic stated-preference framework is combined with the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate which attributes are important in the decision to cryopreserve sperm, what is the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for cryopreservation, and which attributes influence it. A structured, two-part questionnaire was used, based on WTP and Conjoint analysis (CA) applied in tandem to elicit respondents’ preferences in evaluating utility. Findings show which attributes are important in the decision to cryopreserve sperm among them Risk of Infertility, Personal monthly income, Chance of pregnancy from frozen semen, Age and what are significant predictor variables for the WTP which are Personal monthly income, Importance of the risk of infertility, Initial registration fee to sperm bank and cryopreservation, and Degree of religious observance. The findings further demonstrate that respondents value sperm cryopreservation and have a positive WTP for it as it seems to contribute to improving well-being. As a result of these findings, governments should consider state funding for cryopreservation as part of national health policy.

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“…The need for more active research on the post-conception phase of IVF has been highlighted in previous studies. For example, in the introduction to a special issue on ART and parenting culture of Sociological Research Online , Charlotte Faircloth and Zeynep Gurtin (2017) advocate research that addresses the gap between the literatures on ‘pre-conception parents’ – that is, intended parents still undergoing the process of treatment – and post-treatment families. To this end, multiple studies have explored the experiences of heterosexual and lesbian donor IVF families in managing donor kinship (e.g.…”

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Lingering technological entanglements: Experiences of childlessness after IVF

Helosvuori

2020

European Journal of Women's Studies

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For over four decades, feminist studies of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have been interested in the ethical, political and personal implications of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other infertility treatments. Most work on the implications of ART for women has focused on the demanding cyclical process of trying to become pregnant by using the technology. However, less attention has been paid to the implications of experiencing IVF after the conception phase. This article tackles the under-researched topic of the aftermath of IVF, and discusses the temporality of affective embodied experiences of infertility after one has stopped IVF. Drawing on an ethnographic study of peer support groups for the involuntarily childless in Finland, and on in-depth interviews with women suffering from infertility, this article juxtaposes two groups of women who have had IVF: those who have had children as a result of the procedure, and those who have not. The article proposes an exploration of experiences of childlessness after IVF as ‘lingering technological entanglements’ – that is, as affective and embodied experiences of the effects of IVF, including after the cessation of treatment. It argues that the lingering of these entanglements manifests itself in the enactment of childlessness in relation to the available technology. Furthermore, this results in parents identifying themselves as childless, even after they have gained temporal distance from IVF practices.

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Introduction - Making Parents: Reproductive Technologies and Parenting Culture across Borders

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Conceiving contemporary parenthood: imagining, achieving and accounting for parenthood in new family forms

Conceiving contemporary parenthood: imagining, achieving and accounting for parenthood in new family forms

And When I Die: Theory of Planned Behavior as Applied to Sperm Cryopreservation

Lingering technological entanglements: Experiences of childlessness after IVF

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