Reconceiving the Second Sex

Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-472-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 731 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Inhorn, Marcia C.

Mosegaard, Maruska La Cour

Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine

Goldberg, Helene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine
Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen is a Social Anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She has done extensive research into infertility, reproductive technologies and kinship in Denmark. In 1998 she received a prize for the work relating to her PhD thesis, Stories of Coming into Being: Childlessness, Procreative Technologies and Kinship in Denmark.

Inhorn, Marcia C.
Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the past-president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of six books on the subject.

Mosegaard, Maruska La Cour
Maruska la Cour Mosegaard is a Social Anthropologist and has recently finished research on homosexual fatherhood in Denmark. She is currently working at KVINFO, the Danish Center of Information on Women and Gender Research. She is coauthor of a children’s book that introduces the various ways children today come into being in single-parent, heterosexual, and homosexual families; it will appear in December 2008 in both Danish and Swedish.

Goldberg, Helene
Helene Goldberg is a Social Anthropologist whose research on male infertility in Israel has won several prizes. She is associated with the Department of Health Development in Guldborgsund, Denmark, where she focuses on health behavior and lifestyle illnesses.

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the past-president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of six books on the subject.