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Author Kroløkke, Charlotte.

Title The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice : a New Scandinavian Ice Age.

Publication Info. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages).
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Series Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society Ser.
Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society Ser.
Contents Intro; The Cryopolitics of Reproductionon Ice; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Scandinavian Legal Cryo Landscapes; 2. The Scandinavian Welfare States; 3. Freeze and Re-Animate. A Cryopolitical Framework; 4. Reproductive Imaginaries and Methodological Entanglements; 5. Chapter Overview; Chapter 2: Disease: On the Use of Freezing on Medical Indication; Chapter 3: Delay: On the Use of Freezing for Non-medical Reasons; Chapter 4: Death and Destruction; Chapter 5: Disturb; Conclusion; Chapter 1: The Market in Ice; 1. Introduction
2. The Legal Framework2.1. The Development of Private Cryopreserved Sperm Banking in Scandinavia Up To 1997; 2.2. Challenging Heteronormativity Through the Market; 2.3. From "Business-to-Business" to "Business-to-Consumer": Danish Cryo-sperm Goes Global; 2.4. The Story of Why the Cold North Kept the Eggs at Home; 3. Theorizing the Market in Ice; 4. Imaginaries of Travelling Sperm; 4.1. Nature and Safety; 4.2. Kinship and the Best Interests of the Child; 4.3. Commercialization; 5. Imaginaries of Domesticated Eggs; 5.1. Nature and Safety; 5.2. Kinship and the Best Interests of the Child
5.3. Commercialization6. Summary; Chapter 2: Disease: On the Use of Freezing on Medical Indication; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Disease; 4. Imaginaries of Medical Freezing; 4.1. Imaginaries of Progress and Possibility; 4.2. Medical Freezing and the New Regime of Risk Prediction and Management; 4.3. Cryo-insurance and the Imaginary of Reproductive Futurity; 4.4. Imaginaries of "Normal" Womanhood and "Potent" Masculinity; 5. Summary; Chapter 3: Delay: On the Use of Freezing for Non-Medical Reasons; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Delay
4. Imaginaries on Freezing for Non-Medical Reasons4.1. Imaginaries of Reproductive Autonomy; 4.1.1. Egg Freezing as a Tool to Strengthen Women's Individual Autonomy.; 4.1.2. Delay as Socio-cultural Coercion and Market Exploitation.; 4.2. Imaginaries of Rightly Timed Kinship; 4.2.1. Kinship Temporalities and the Best Interests of the Child.; 4.2.2. Kinship Temporalities and the Best Interests of (Older) Women.; 5. Summary; Chapter 4: Death and Destruction; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Death and Destruction; 4. Imaginaries of Death and Destruction
4.1. Dr Frankenstein's Monstrous Technologies4.2. When Death No Longer Does Us Part. Imaginaries of Families Forever; 4.2.1. From the Deposit with Love.; 4.2.2. Latent Siblings, Liminal Life.; 5. Summary; Chapter 5: Disturb; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Disturbance; 4. Imaginaries of Disturbance; 4.1. Disturbances of Reproductive Time -- Old Mothers; 4.2. Disturbing the Generational Kinship Order; 4.3. Disturbing Gendered Reproductive Categories; 4.3.1. From Sickness to Reproductive Citizenship in the Welfare State?
Note 4.3.2. Where Is the Mother? Troubling Reproductive Categorization.
Summary Reproduction has entered a new ice age. Using cryopolitics as an interdisciplinary framework to help understand the contemporary state of cryo-fertility, this book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Glaciology -- Scandinavia.
Glaciology.
Scandinavia.
Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.
Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Petersen, Thomas Søbirk.
Herrmann, Janne Rothmar.
Bach, Anna Sofie.
Adrian, Stine Willum.
Hansen, Rune Klingenberg.
Petersen, Michael Nebeling.
Other Form: Print version: Kroløkke, Charlotte. Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice : A New Scandinavian Ice Age. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2019 9781838670436
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