University of Warwick Department of Sociology 2013-14 Module Transformations: Gender, Contemporary Society Reproduction Lecturers & Tutors Caroline Wright and Maria Do Mar Pereira and Introduction This module examines the significance of gender in shaping, and being shaped by, contemporary human reproduction. Based on feminist perspectives, the module challenges taken-for-granted assumptions and highlights the ways in which reproduction is being transformed. The module has a predominantly UK focus, though it seeks to incorporate global perspectives. We begin by asking ‘why do we have children?’ (and why do we not?), and ‘who needs children?’. We then explore the links between parenthood and gender identity and the diverse patterns of biological and social reproduction and parenting that characterise the contemporary era, including step-parents, disabled parents, single parents, gay and lesbian parents, and, later in the module, adoptive parents. Throughout the module attention is paid to the way in which narratives of class, ‘race’/ethnicity, age, sexuality and (dis)ability, as well as gender, inform ideas about who’s ‘fit’ to be a parent in the 21 st century. We examine women’s embodied experiences of pregnancy and birth in a technological age and consider whether and how they differ from those of the father-to-be. Particular attention is paid to the institution of motherhood and definitions of the ‘good’ mother, including contemporary debates about breastfeeding. In considering the timing of parenthood, it becomes clear that tighter social boundaries govern the ‘right time’ to become a mother than they do the ‘right time’ to become a father. Technologies of reproduction that seek to limit fertility by breaking the link between heterosex and reproduction are explored, such as contraception and abortion. We also consider the phenomenon and experience of infertility, and reproductive technologies that are designed to overcome or bypass it, such as IVF. The module concludes by considering the politics and ethics of the new genetics of reproduction that IVF has partly enabled, including gamete donation, saviour siblings and full surrogacy. Autumn Term Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Introduction: Defining the Terms Why Do We Have Children? Who Owns Women’s Bodies? Who Needs Children? Femininity and Motherhood: Towards an Uncoupling? Masculinity and Fatherhood: Beyond the Breadwinner Role? Reading Week Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Parenting ‘Be’ What Parenting ‘Is’? Embodied Experiences of Pregnancy in a Technological Age Giving Birth to Children and Mothers The Feminist Politics of Infant Feeding: Is ‘Breast Best’? 1 Spring Term Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Social and Cultural Politics of Adoption Timing Parenthood Who Manages Fertility? The Politics of Contraception Whose Body Is It Anyway? The Politics of Abortion Reproductive Disruptions: Infertility Reading Week Group Presentations Week IVF and Gamete Donation Genetics: Our Reproductive Futures? Surrogacy: Just Any Other Contract or the Dehumanisation of Women’s Reproductive Labour? Summer Term Two weeks of revision workshops and seminars. Learning Outcomes By the end of the module students should have an understanding of: 1. The significance of gender in shaping contemporary human reproduction, and being shaped by contemporary human reproduction. 2. The diversity of gendered reproduction across time and space and the ways in which it is cross-cut by other social variables and identities such as social class, age, (dis)ability, ‘race’/ethnicity, sexuality. 3. Key concepts in approaches to the politics and theory of generational reproduction in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, in its engagement with sociological and political theory and popular culture. 4. Key controversies in social life about who should reproduce, when and how, together with women’s and men’s own experiences of reproduction and parenting in diverse contexts. 5. Constructions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ parenting, and how they are gendered. 6. The main constraints and incentives that impinge on reproductive practices and the gender division of labour within them, and the changed forms that have emerged in the face of changes in reproductive technology, in women’s education, and women’s and men’s participation in labour markets in modern society, in comparative perspective. 7. The fragmentation of parenthood, such that we can distinguish the genetic, gestational and social mother, and the genetic and social father, and the social and cultural implications. 8. The complexities of reprogenetics, including the ethical tensions between seeking to enhance quality of life and erasing disability. 2 9. The complexities of sharing reproductive capacities, including surrogacy and gamete donation. 10. The interconnections between generational reproduction and ‘social reproduction’ in the more extended sense – the reproduction of social hierarchies and relations of power, and the formation and boundary-maintenance of social identities such as those based on class, ‘race’, ethnicity and nation. Cognitive Skills In the process of developing an advanced understanding of the substantive aspects of generational and social reproduction, students will also acquire the ability to: 1. Assess critically competing identifications of and perspectives on the diverse forms of contemporary social and cultural relations of generational and social reproduction and parenting. 2. Reflect critically on taken-for-granted assumptions about gender and reproduction. 3. Locate, retrieve, process and evaluate a wide range of materials about parenting and social reproduction in (post)modern societies. 4. Evaluate competing explanations and perspectives on the processes and outcomes of modes of reproduction and parenting, drawing on the above range of materials, including cultural representations, using appropriate argument and evidence. 5. Make scholarly presentations verbal and written, on the social and cultural relations of generational and social reproduction and the issues surrounding them. Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods The following learning and teaching methods are designed to equip students with an advanced understanding of substantive knowledge and cognitive skills relevant to generational and social reproduction: 1. A framework of 18 lectures that establish the module’s outer limits and internal logic. 2. Weekly seminars for structured discussions, including student-initiated and collaborative short presentations, on specific topics. 3. A group project running from mid-Autumn term, focussing on a chosen theme, to be presented during week 7 of the Spring term. 4. One formative, non-assessed essay and one formative piece of group project work. 6. Self-directed individual and collaborative study in the library and on the internet, in preparation for seminars, projects and written work. 7. Two weeks of teaching and learning dedicated to revision in Term 3. 3 Lectures Lectures have been designed to provide an introduction to each week’s topic and an overview of some of the key concepts and issues at stake. They are intended to stimulate your interest and orient you for the core reading, and are certainly not all you would need to know about a topic. A handout for each lecture will be available from the module home-page from the weekend prior, for you to print out and bring to the lecture or access electronically during the lecture. This will include key ideas in order to limit the amount you have to write down at speed during the lecture; the intention is that you are then freer to listen to the lecture and annotate your handout with additional material in order to make it work for you. Transformations lectures have also been designed to include regular student participation, in order to engage and maintain your interest and to prevent the lecture becoming a passive transfer of information. Some students will choose to read the core reading/viewing/listening in advance of the lecture, and then perhaps return to them after the lecture for a second reading. Others will prefer to leave the core readings until after the lecture. If you miss a lecture for any reason then you can access the ‘bare bones’ from the online handout. It is important that lectures start on time so please be prompt. Seminars Seminar attendance is a compulsory requirement of your course and if you are unable to attend a seminar for any reason then you should e-mail your seminar tutor in advance to explain. Seminar registers are kept and form part of the University-wide procedures for monitoring student attendance (see Undergraduate Handbook for more details). Preparation for seminars is essential and comprises attending the lecture, completing the core reading, making notes on the core reading/viewing/listening and making notes in relation to the seminar questions posed. For particular seminars and as arranged in advance students may also need to prepare presentations before the seminar to give during the seminar, or complete other exercises. Seminars are designed to be highly participatory and you need to be prepared to play a full role. The seminar tutor serves as a guide to particular issues and to structure activities, but not to provide the main content. Students are reminded that they will need to bring to each seminar the relevant lecture notes, core reading and notes, and their module handbook. It is important that seminars start on time so please be prompt. Summative Assessment Methods (which measure learning outcomes and determine the final mark) Taking account of any upper limit imposed by the University on the proportion of a student’s work that may be formally assessed outside conventional examinations, students on this module may choose one of the following: 1. Answering three questions in a 3-hour, closed-book, written examination; 2. Answering 2 questions in a 2-hour-closed-book, written examination AND submitting 1 piece of assessed work of 3000 words developed from the group project; 3. Submitting 1 assessed essay of 3000 words AND 1 piece of assessed work of 3000 words developed from the group project. 4 Details of assessed project and essay work will be provided by week 10 of the Autumn term at the latest, on the module web-site. Please note that summative project and essay work is submitted anonymously; make sure your name is not in the document, or document file name. Your attention is drawn to departmental procedures on submission, deadlines, penalties and extensions – see the Undergraduate Handbook for details. Please follow the full guidance in the Undergraduate Handbook and PSP about presentation, referencing etc. Formative Work (used to provide feedback on your progress, completion is compulsory) Please note that all formative work should be submitted to your seminar tutor at the start of your seminar in the week it is due. If you have a problem meeting the deadline then you must contact your seminar tutor about this before the deadline. 1) Due in at the start of your seminar in week 7 (week beginning 11 November 2013): A class essay of 2,000 words, the title to be chosen from the list below: a) Why should sociologists who are interested in gender also be interested in human reproduction? b) Critically evaluate explanations given in sociological, feminist and popular accounts of why women and men have children. c) What claims, if any, do the following groups make over women’s reproductive capacities, and how valid are their claims: male partners; extended family members; the nation-state? d) To what extent does femininity rely on motherhood and to what extent does masculinity rely on fatherhood? e) How is the prevailing concept of the good parent gendered? You are encouraged to go beyond the UK where possible in answering your chosen question, and should always specify if your discussion is specific to a particular location. A hard copy of your essay should be submitted to your seminar tutor, pages numbered and stapled and with your name on. The full title of your essay should be reproduced accurately and in full at the start. Please follow the full guidance in the Undergraduate Handbook and PSP about presentation, referencing etc. In line with the University’s policy of providing feedback on formative work within 20 working days of receipt, work that is submitted on time will be returned with a mark and comments before the end of the Autumn term. 5 2) Due in at the start of your seminar in week 17 (week beginning 18 February 2013) A group submission of your project work (ie. one submission per group). If you use Powerpoint then submission is a hard copy print-out of your group’s slides with your notes, stapled and with your group members and topic named on the front. Note that time constraints may prevent you presenting all of your group work, but you should submit it all for comments. One person in the group needs to take responsibility for making the submission. In line with the University’s policy of providing feedback on formative work within 20 working days of receipt, work that is submitted on time will be returned with group feedback before the end of the Spring term. Core Reading/Viewing/Listening Core readings are identified for each week and need to be read before the relevant seminar, and for some weeks there is also core viewing and/or listening. All the core readings are available electronically as well as in hard copy in the Library. During the seminar you should have access to your notes and to a printed or electronic copy of the core reading or, if that is not possible, very detailed notes. There are three types of electronic readings that are accessed via the Library: scanned in extracts from books; e-journal articles; and e-books. Other resources can be accessed directly from the internet using the link provided. You will need Adobe Reader to access resources electronically, and you can download it free if you don’t already have it on your machine: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=DAFYK Scanned in Extracts These are chapters of books available via the Library’s dedicated site for e-resources for this module: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 You will need to ensure that you are registered for the module via eMR in order to have access to electronic extracts, and you must also complete Web Sign-on. Then you simply look for the reference you require (they are arranged alphabetically by author’s surname). It will open as a pdf and the chapter follows on from the Copyright Notice. You can read it on screen but you will also need to print a copy to bring to the seminar or have screen access during the seminar, and you might also want to save a copy (for your own personal use only). E-journal articles The link provided will take you to the Library’s catalogue site for that e-journal. You will then need to select a database to access it through, checking that it has the relevant year. You will need to be logged in and then the database archive will open and you need to select the Vol. and/or No. of the journal and page down for the article. You can click to open the pdf, which may take a few seconds, but the interface and reliability does vary. It is recommended instead to save the pdf to your hard drive or data-stick (right click, select ‘save target as’, then choose a directory and give the file a meaningful name). You can then open the saved document, print it, search it etc. 6 E-books The link provided after the reference in the reading list will take you to the Library’s catalogue site for that e-book. You will be prompted to enter your Warwick login to access the book. Once you have opened the book you need to search for the relevant chapter. You can read this on-screen and make notes but if possible you must also print a copy to bring to the class (for Net Library books see the option at the top of the page (very small) or have screen access during the seminar. Palgrave ebooks allow the whole book to be downloaded. BobNational TV programmes For some weeks, the list of core or additional viewings will include TV series which are available to screen via Box of Broadcasts, or BobNational. BobNational is a website that hosts TV programmes recorded for higher education institutions to use for learning purposes. It contains an impressive amount of relevant documentaries, films and series. To browse BobNational, go to www.bobnational.net To watch on BobNational one of the programmes suggested in this handbook, follow these steps: Go to www.bobnational.net In the box on the top left-hand side (“Where are you from?”), type “Warwick”, select University of Warwick and then click “Go to log in” Insert your Warwick username and password If this is your first time using BobNational, you may be asked to create a user account, a process which is free, simple and quick You now have two options: o You can copy the relevant website address from the handbook and paste it on the address bar on your browser, to go directly to the relevant video. OR o You can use the search box on the top left-hand side to search for the title of the programme. Additional Reading/Viewing All the additional readings listed below each topic are available in the library or online and should be used when doing more in depth work, eg. for a seminar presentation, class essay, group project, assessed essay or revision for exams. Film Resources Debates, anxieties and practices of gendered reproduction and parenting are represented in many recent and not so recent films. While there is no formal screening of films as part of the module, your attention is drawn to the following list of films, some of which you may know already and might think again about in the context of the module’s concerns, and others which you might consider watching if you’re working on the particular topic. There is also an opportunity to do a group project on reproduction in film (see below). 7 About a Boy (motherhood and fatherhood) Away We Go (pregnancy) Baby Mama (lone motherhood; surrogacy) Chutney Popcorn (surrogacy, lesbian parenting) Flirting with Disaster (adoption, gay and lesbian parenting) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café (lesbian parenting) If These Walls Could Talk (abortion) If These Walls Could Talk 2 (lesbian parenting) Junior (male ‘pregnancy’) Juno (unplanned pregnancy) Made in India (surrogacy) Making Grace (donor sperm, lesbian parenting) Maybe Baby (infertility, IUI) My Sister’s Keeper (saviour siblings Mother and Child (adoption) Paternal Instinct (gay parenting, surrogacy) Revolutionary Road (abortion) Secrets and Lies (adoption) Stepmom (step-parenting) The Blind Side (adoption) The Handmaid’s Tale (surrogacy) The Kids are Alright (donor sperm/ lesbian parenting) The Magdalene Sisters (lone mothers) The Next Best Thing (gay parenting) The Other Woman (step-parenting, SIDS) Then She Found Me (miscarriage, IUI, adoption) Three Men and a Baby (masculinity and fatherhood) Up (infertility) Vera Drake (abortion) Violet’s Visit (gay parenting) We are Dad (adoption/fostering, gay parenting) What to Expect When You’re Expecting (pregnancy, adoption, parenting) This list is by no means comprehensive and we’d welcome your suggestions for additions to it. As sociologists it’s important to view films critically, paying attention to the genre, typecasting, visual style, music as well as the plot. We need to ask questions about what dominant readings of an issue the film might promote; what counter readings are possible; which characters we’re invited to identify with; how the fictional portrayal of an event links to what we know from sociological research about the event’s likelihood and how people experience it. Above all we need to remember that films are highly crafted and marketed commodities and that they are far from a straightforward representation of life. Here is a sample of literature to guide you: Benyahia, Sarah Casey (2012) Doing Film Studies, Hoboken: Taylor and Francis (esp. section 3) Curran, James (Ed.) (2010) Media and Society, London: Bloomsbury Academic (5th edition) (esp first 5 chapters) 8 Hollow, Joanne, Peter Hutchings and Mark Jancovich (Eds) (2000) The Film Studies Reader, London: Arnold McCabe, Janet (2004) Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema, London; New York: Wallflower Radner, Hilary and Rebecca Stringer (Eds) (2011) Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema, Oxford: New York: Routledge (includes a chapter on the films Juno and Baby Mama) Other Resources from Popular Culture TV series past and present, autobiographies and novels can also provide insight into contemporary pre-occupations with gender and reproduction. These are too numerous to list here; the same requirement for critical sociological engagement applies as to films. To browse BobNational for TV series, go to www.bobnational.net Group Project Issues of and anxieties about reproduction are highly topical and frequently in the news; reproductive issues are also often the target of public policy. During this module you will be working on a group project that involves researching media, popular and public policy debate on one of a list of themes and integrating it with the academic literature and relevant statistics. The aims of the group project are as follows: - to provoke your awareness of and interest in reproductive issues in all aspects of life, not just when directly studying for this module; to enhance your independent research skills and provide an opportunity for you to pursue what interests you the most; to develop your group-work and presentation skills; to thread one piece of assessed work through the module at an early stage, to be developed from your group project, easing the pressure of multiple deadlines after the Easter vacation. For 13-14 the list of themes for the group project is as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Gender Identity and Parenting Non-Nuclear Families Pregnancy and/or Childbirth Breastfeeding Timing Parenthood Reproduction in Popular Culture (Film-TV-Fiction) (Dis)ability and Reproduction ‘Race’ and Reproduction Adoption and/or Step-parenting Within your group’s theme you can specialize further, for example in 1 you could focus on masculinity and fathering; in 2 you could focus on gay and lesbian parents. 9 Your group will be set up through your seminar toward the end of term 1, when you will also be provided with a Group Project Guide, and you are encouraged to meet regularly with your group as the module proceeds to work on your project. The Learning Grid offers an excellent venue for such meetings. Presentations will be given by all groups in week 7 of the Spring term, after the reading week, using both the lecture and seminar slots. You will also submit a hard copy of your group project work immediately after its presentation and will be given formative group feedback based both on the written submission and the presentation given (see formative work above). One piece of assessed work for this module will draw on aspects of your group project, although the final written output needs to be your own work. 10 Reading List and Seminar Questions Week 1 Introduction: Defining the Terms Caroline Wright This introductory lecture will look at the ‘keywords’ in sociological and feminist discussions of reproduction. Many of these circulate in the language of ‘common sense’. Their meanings may seem obvious. But these meaning have shifted and become more difficult to define as the social relations and the technology of reproduction have been transformed, and as ‘the family’ has grown more diverse, challenging traditional attitudes towards ‘family values’. These terms include: reproduction (social and generational) reproductive rights patriarchy family/household system motherhood/fatherhood gestational parent/birth parent/social parent new reproductive technologies We will also consider a range of recent headlines about reproduction, which characterise the extent of the debate and the anxiety it is currently generating. Seminar Questions What are reproductive rights? How do you think the following variables influence the exercise of reproductive rights: place/location; age; religion; sexuality; gender? What have you done today to contribute to the daily reproduction of human life? What experience do you have of the fragmentation of parenting? (eg. genetic/gestational/social parents?) Could sex be history? Should sex be history? Core Reading Cochrane, Kira (2012) ‘Why sex could be history’, The Guardian, 18 August, Available online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/17/sex-reproduction-aarathi-prasad Knudsen, Lara M. (2006) Reproductive Rights in a Global Context, N a s h v i l l e : Vanderbilt University Press (Introduction, pp. 1-10) Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Momsen, Janet (2004) Gender and Development, London: Routledge (ch. 3 ‘Reproduction’, pp. 47-74) Available as an E-book: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2525920 11 Additional Reading Annandale, Ellen (2009) Women’s Health and Social Change, Abingdon; New York: Routledge (ch. 4 ‘Women and Reproduction’) AndermahrEds, Sonya et al (Eds) (2000) A Glossary of Feminist Theory, London: Arnold (see entries on reproduction, the family, family/household system, patriarchy) Castells, M. (2004) The Power of Identity, Oxford: Blackwell (Ch.4, ‘The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age’) Chrisler, Joan C. (Ed.) (2012) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger Firestone, Shulamith (1979) The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, London: The Women’s Press Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp (1991) ‘The Politics of Reproduction’, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 20, pp. 311-343 Hamner, Jalna (1993) ‘Women and Reproduction’, in D. Richardson and V. Robinson (Eds) Introducing Women’s Studies, London: Macmillan, pp. 224-249 Homans, Hilary (1985) The Sexual Politics of Reproduction, Aldershot: Gower Howe, Tasha R. (2012) Marriages and Families in the 21st Century, Maiden, MA: WileyBlackwell (ch. 9 ‘Reproduction and Parenting’) Jackson, Emily (2001) Regulating Reproduction: law, technology and autonomy, Oxford: Hart Jagger, Gill and Caroline Wright (1999) ‘Introduction: Changing Family Values’, in Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright (Eds) Changing Family Values, London: Routledge Oakley, Ann (1985) (revised edition) Sex, Gender and Society, Aldershot: Gower Stacey, Meg (Ed.) (1992) Changing Human Reproduction: Social Science Perspectives, London: Sage Widdows, Heather et al (Eds) (2006) Women’s Reproductive Rights, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan Websites Centre for Reproductive Rights: http://reproductiverights.org/ UNFPA Reproductive Rights: http://reproductiverights.org/ Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights: http://www.wgnrr.org/ 12 Week 2 Why Children? Caroline Wright ‘Why Children’ was the title of an interesting collection of accounts (unfortunately not available in the library) written by feminists in the 1970s about the process of deciding whether or not to have children in the UK. The writers included some who had gone ahead and taken the plunge, some who had decided against, often with some reluctance and regret, and one who was quite unambivalent, who used the phrase ‘I always knew I did not want children’ – a phrase that recurs in recent studies of childfree women. Some were heterosexual, some lesbian, some married, others not. But the title indicates the assumption that the question ‘why children?’ is addressed to women of childbearing age. This week we ask why women have children and why some do not, exploring women’s own reasons as well as how others account for their reproductive status. In particular we will consider Nancy Chodorow’s argument that reproduction is not always and necessarily a decision imposed on women, but one that many women are motivated to want, because of the psychodynamics of the family in which they developed adult sexed selves. We will also ask why men have children (or don’t). Next week we will address a second, related question, ‘who needs children?’ - this question draws attention to other ‘stakeholders’ in generational reproduction, who may feel the need or the right to influence reproductive decision-making. Seminar Questions Why do women have children? How are women without children typically portrayed? Why do men have children? How are men without children typically portrayed? Core Reading Chodorow, Nancy (1992) ‘The psychodynamics of the family’ in H. Crowley and S. Himmelweit (Eds) Knowing Women, Cambridge: Polity/OU Press, pp.153-159 Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Gillespie, Rosemary (2000) ‘When no means no: disbelief, disregard and deviance as discourses of voluntary childlessness’, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 223-234 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1746049~S1 Morgan, S. Philip and Rosalind B. King (2001) ‘Why Have Children in the 21st Century? Biological Predisposition, Social Coercion, Rational Choice’, European Journal of Population, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 3-20 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739765~S1 Additional Reading Abma, J.C. and G.M. Martinez (2006) ‘Childlessness among older women in the United States: Trends and profiles’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 1045-1056 13 Bartlett, J. (1994) Will you be Mother? Women who choose to say no, London: Virago Bongaarts, J. (1999) ‘Fertility and Decline in the Developed World: Where will it end?’, American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 211-229 Busfield, J. and M. Paddon (1978) Thinking about Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Dowrick, S. and S. Grundberg (Eds) (1980) Why Children?, London: Woman’s Press (not in library) Gillespie, R. (2001) ‘Contextualizing voluntary childlessness within a postmodern model of reproduction: implications for health and social neEds’, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 139-160 Gittins, Diana (1993) The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies, Basingstoke: Macmillan (Ch. 5 ‘Why do people have children?’) Heaton, T. B. et al (1999) ‘Persistence and change in decisions to remain childless’, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 531-539 Hird, Myra (2003) ‘Vacant Wombs: Feminist Challenges to Psycho-analytic Theories of Childless Women’, Feminist Review, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 5-19 Hollway, Wendy (1997) Mothering and Ambivalence, London: Routledge Jackson, Emily (2006) ‘What is a Parent?, in Alison Diduck and Katherine O’Donovan (Eds) Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Abingdon, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 59-74 Koropeckyj-Coz, Tanya, Victor Romano and Amanda Moras (2007) ‘Through the Lenses of Gender, Race and Class: Students’ Perceptions of Childless/Childfree Individuals and Couples’, Sex Roles, Vol. 56, Nos. 7-8, pp. 415-428 Letherby, Gayle (2002) ‘Challenging Dominant Discourses: Identity and change and the experience of ‘infertility’ and ‘involuntary childlessness’’, Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 277288 McCallister, F. (1998) Choosing Childlessness, London: Family Policy Studies Centre McDaniel, Susan A. (1996) ‘Towards a synthesis of feminist and demographic perspectives on fertility’, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 83-104 Marshall, H. (1994) Not Having Children, Oxford: Oxford University Press Morrell, C. (1994) Unwomanly Conduct: The Challenge of Intentional Childlessness, London: Routledge O’Brien, M. (1981) The Politics of Reproduction, London: Routledge 14 O’Donovan, Katherine and Jill Marshall (2006) ‘After birth: decisions about becoming a mother’, in Alison Diduck and Katherine O’Donovan (Eds) Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Abingdon, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, pp.101-122 Overall, Christine (2012) Why Have Children: The ethical debate, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press Rich, Adrienne (1977) Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Institution and Experience, London: Virago Romito, P (1997) ‘Damned if you Do and Damned if you Don’t: Psychological and Social Constraints of Motherhood in Contemporary Europe’, in A. Oakley & J. Mitchell (Eds) Who’s Afraid of Feminism: Seeing Through the Backlash, London: Hamish Hamilton Ruddick, Sara (1990) Maternal Thinking, London: Women’s Press Salecl, R. (2011) The Tyranny of Choice, London: Profile (ch. 4 Children: To have or have not?) Schoen, R. K. et al (1997) ‘Why do Americans want children?’ Population and Development Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 333-358 Woollett, Anne (1991) ‘Having Children: Accounts of Childless Women and Women with Reproductive Problems’ in Anne Phoenix, Anne Woollett and Eva Lloyd (Eds) Motherhood: Meanings, practices and ideologies, London: Sage, pp. 47-65 Websites Office for National Statistics: Births and Fertility: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Births+and+Fertility UK ChildFree: http://www.meetup.com/UK-Childfree/ Why No Kids: http://whynokids.com/about/ World Bank: Global Fertility Rates: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN 15 Week 3 Who owns women’s bodies? Who needs children? Caroline Wright This week we move the focus from the question ‘why children?’, with its implicit focus on women, to the broader question ‘who needs children?’ This second question allows us to identify those other than women of childbearing age who have a stake in the next generation and therefore an interest in the reproductive lives of fertile women. We shall identify some of these ‘stakeholders’ and look at their success in claiming rights over women’s reproductive bodies. This will bring into sharp focus the revolutionary nature of the liberal claim, first articulated in the early modern period in Europe, to individual ‘ownership’ of one’s body. This claim has been central to the 1970s women’s movement, and is pretty much taken for granted today in modern societies. It is a claim that is not without contention, and one that women have yet, de facto, to claim with full success. Seminar Questions Who needs children? Does needing children give other people the right to make claims over the reproductive lives of women? What sort of claims are made, how successfully and by whom? How are these claims differentiated by women’s (dis)ability? How are these claims differentiated by women’s ‘race’/ethnicity? How are these claims differentiated by women’s location? Core Reading Browner, C.H. (2000) ‘Situating Women’s Reproductive Activities’, American Anthropologist, Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 773-778 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1736847~S1 Kallianes V. and P. Rubenfeld (1997) ‘Disabled Women and Reproductive Rights’, Disability & Society, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 203-221 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739242~S1 Kasai, Makiko and S. Craig Rooney (2012) ‘The Choice Before the Choice: Partner Selection is Essential to Reproductive Justice’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 11-28 Available as an E-book: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2647316 King, Leslie (2002) ‘Demographic Trends, Pronatalism, and Nationalist Ideologies in the late Twentieth Century’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 367-389 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739671~S1 Additional Reading Beck, U. and Beck-Gernshein, E. (2001) Individualization: Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences, London: Sage 16 Brenner, Johanna and Maria Ramas (1990), ‘Rethinking women’s oppression’ (first published 1984), in T. Lovell (Ed.) British Feminist Thought, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 152-169 Brown Jessica Autumn and Myra Marx Ferree (2005) ‘Close Your Eyes and Think of England’, Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 5-24 Dotson, L.A., J. Stinson and L. Christian (2003) ‘“People Tell Me I Can’t Have Sex”: Women with disabilities share their personal perspectives on health care, sexuality and reproductive rights’, Women and Therapy, Vol. 26, Nos 3-4, pp. 195-210 Fraser, N. (1997) Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the ‘Postsocialist’ Condition, New York & London: Routledge (ch. 10 Beyond the Master/Subject Model) Ginsberg, F. and R. Rapp (1991) ‘The Politics of Reproduction’, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 11-43 Halkias, Alexandra (2003) ‘Money, God and Race: The Politics of Reproduction and the Nation in Modern Greece’, European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 211- 232 Hill Collins, Patricia (1999) ‘Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class and Contemporary US Population Policies’, in Nira Yuval-Davis and Pnina Werbner (Eds) Women, Citizenship and Difference, London and New York: Zed, pp. 118-129 Inhorn, Marcia C. (2006) ‘Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Messages from more than 150 Ethnographies’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 345-378 Irwin, Sarah (2000) 'Reproductive Regimes: Changing Relations of Inter-dependence and Fertility Change', Sociological Research Online, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 151-167 Kanaaneh, Rhoda A. (2002) Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel, Berkeley: University of California Press King, Leslie (1998) ‘“France Needs Children”: Pronatalism, Nationalism and Women's Equity’, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 33-52 MacPherson, C.B (1962) The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Oxford: OUP Mishtal, Joanna Z. (2009) ‘Matters of “Conscience”: The Politics of Reproductive Healthcare in Poland’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 161-183 Nelson, J. (2003) Women of Colour and the Reproductive Rights Movement, New York: New York University Press O, Neill, J. (1994) The Missing Child in Liberal Theory, Toronto: University of Toronto Overall, Christine (2012) Why Have Children: The ethical debate, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (ch. 2 ‘Reproductive Freedom, Autonomy and Reproductive Rights’) 17 Parry, Diana C. (2005) ‘Women's Leisure as Resistance to Pronatalist Ideology’, Journal of Leisure Research, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 133-151 Pateman, Carole (1988) The Sexual Contract, Cambridge: Polity Press Philips, A. (2011) ‘It’s my body and I’ll do what I like with it: Bodies as Objects and Property’, Political Theory, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 724-748 Phillips, A. (2013) Our Bodies, Whose Property?, Princeton: Princeton University Press (Ch. 1 ‘What’s So Special About the Body?’) Roberts, Dorothy (1998) ‘Who May Give Birth to the Citizen?: Reproduction, Eugenics and Immigration’, Rutgers Race and Law Review, Vol. 1, pp. 129-135 Silliman, J. et al (2004) Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organise for Reproductive Justice, Boston: South End Press Sparrow, Robert (2008) ‘Is it “Every Man’s Right to Have Babies If He Wants Them”?: Male Pregnancy and the Limits of Reproductive Liberty’, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 275-299 Thomas, L.M. (2003) Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction and the State in Kenya, Berkeley: California University Press Tilly, Liz, Jan Walmsley, Sarah Earle and Dorothy Atkinson (2012) ‘International Perspectives on the Sterilization of Women with Intellectual Disabilities’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 23-36 Yuval-Davis, N. (1997) Gender and Nation, London: Sage (Ch. 2: ‘Women and the biological reproduction of the nation’) Websites Centre for Reproductive Rights: http://reproductiverights.org/ Disability Rights Fund: Reproductive Rights: http://www.disabilityrightsfund.org/node/403 Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights: http://www.wgnrr.org/ 18 Week 4 Femininity and Motherhood: Towards an Uncoupling? Caroline Wright This week we shall look at the tight bond maintained between ‘being a woman’ and ‘being a mother’: between femininity and motherhood. Within Western ‘modernity’ and more widely, the idea that biological motherhood is an essential component of adult femininity, that the transition to motherhood marks the transition to adulthood for women, has been prominent. However there is an important conditional clause: only ‘the right women’ should become mothers. The right women are marked by age, marriage (or at least a steady partnership), sexuality (heterosexual), able-bodiedness and ‘respectability’. Respectability is often marked in terms of class and ‘race’. It is deemed ‘natural’ for women who meet these criteria to become mothers, and ‘good mothering’ is assumed to come ‘naturally’ to them. At the same time step-mothers are supposedly ‘bad’ mothers, by definition. These dominant discourses are often at variance with the actual experiences of mothers, but continue to shape women’s responses to motherhood. Meanwhile as women’s paid employment has become the norm, the extent to which they can ‘have it all’, ie. a career and children, has received much attention, amidst anxieties that middle-class, professional women are missing out on reproduction and will be left with ‘baby hunger’. Seminar Questions What are the dominant discourses of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothering’? What problems do they pose for women’s identity and agency and how do women respond? How are constructions of ‘good’ mothering related to different parenting styles? What would ‘good enough’ mothering look like and why is it important? How have feminists theorized the relationship between motherhood and femininity? Core Reading and Viewing BBC Three (2011) Cherry’s Parenting Dilemmas, originally broadcast on August 11. Available at http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=65060&view=flash_player Choi, P., Henshaw, C., Baker, S. and Tree, J. (2005) ‘Supermum, Superwife, Supereverything: Performing Femininity in the Transition to Motherhood’, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, Vol. 23, No.2, pp. 167-180 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1774711~S1 Christian, Allison (2005) ‘Contesting the Myth of the ‘Wicked Stepmother’: Narrative Analysis of an Online Stepfamily Support Group’, Western Journal of Communication, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 27-47 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2099875~S1 Smart, Carol (1996) ‘Deconstructing Motherhood’ in Bortoloia Silva, E. (Ed.) Good Enough Mothering: Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood, London: Routledge, pp. 37-57 Available as an E-extract: (requested 22 October 2013) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 19 Additional Reading Apple, Rima D. (2006) Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Arendell, Terry (2000) ‘Conceiving and Investigating Motherhood: The Decade's Scholarship’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 1192-1207 Berger, P. & Berger, B. (1983) The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground, London: Hutchinson Bernard, Stephen and S. J. Connell (2010) ‘Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty’, Gender and Society, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 717-745 Blossfeld, H.P. (Ed.) (1995) The New Role of Women: Family Formation in Modern Societies, Boulder: Westview Bornat, Joanne, Brian Dimmock, David Jones and Sheila Peace (1999) ‘Generational ties in the ‘New’ family: Changing contexts for traditional obligations’, in Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart (Eds) The New Family?, London: Sage, pp. 115-128 Byrne, B. (2006) ‘In search of a good mix: “race”, class, gender and practices of mothering’, Sociology, Vol. 40, No. 46, pp. 1001-1017 DiQinzio, P. (1999) The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering, London: Routledge Gimenez, M.E. (1983) ‘Feminism, Pronatalism and Motherhood’, in J. Trebilcot (Ed.) Mothering: Essays in Feminist Theory, Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield Glenn, Evelyn Nakano (1994) ‘Social Constructions of Mothering: A Thematic Overview’, in Glenn, Evelyn Nakano et al (Eds) Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, London: Routledge Green, Trish (2010) Motherhood, Absence and Transition: when adult children leave home, Farnham; Burlington: Ashgate Hewlett, S.A. (2002) Baby Hunger: The New Battle for Motherhood, London: Atlantic Books Hollway, W. and Featherstone, B. (Eds) (1997) Mothering and Ambivalence, London: Routledge Johnson, Deirdre D. and Debra H. Swanson (2006) ‘Constructing the ‘Good Mother’: The Experience of Mothering Ideologies by Work Status’, Sex Roles, Vol. 54, Nos 7-8. pp. 509-519 Kaplan, E. Ann (1992) Motherhood and Representation: the mother in popular culture and melodrama, London: Routledge Kuperberg, Arielle and Pamela Stone (2008) ‘The Media Depiction of Women Who Opt Out’, Gender and Society, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 497-517 20 Landsman, Gail (2010) Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of ‘Perfect’ Babies, Hoboken: Taylor and Francis Lareau, Annette (2003) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life, Berkeley: University of California Press (esp. ch. 1 ‘Concerted Cultivation and Natural Growth’) Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia and Jen Cellio (Eds) (2011) Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press Lorber, J. (1994) Paradoxes of Gender, New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press (esp. ch. 7 ‘Rocking the Cradle: Gendered Parenting’) McMahon, M. (1995) Engendering Motherhood: Identity and self-transformation in women’s lives, New York: Guildford Press Malacrida, Claudia (2009) ‘Performing Motherhood in a Disablist World: Dilemmas of motherhood, femininity and disability’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 99-117 Marshall, Harriette (1991) ‘The social construction of motherhood: An analysis of childcare and parenting manuals’, in Anne Phoenix, Anne Woollett and Eva Lloyd (Eds) Motherhood: Meanings, Practices and Ideologies, London: Sage, pp. 66-85 Martinot, S. (2007) ‘Motherhood and the invention of race’, Hypatia, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 79-97 Meyers, Diana (2001) ‘The Rush to Motherhood: pronatalist discourse and women’s autonomy’, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 735-74 Miller, Tina (2007) ‘“Is This What Motherhood is All About?”: Weaving Experiences and Discourse through Transition to First-Time Motherhood’, Gender and Society, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 337-358 Neustatter, Angela (1989) Hyenas in Petticoats: A Look at Twenty Years of Feminism, London: Penguin (Ch. 4 ‘Holding the baby: feminism and motherhood) Nicolson, Paula (1993) ‘Motherhood and Women’s Lives’, in Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson (Eds) Introducing Women’s Studies, London: Macmillan, pp. 201-223 Oakley, Ann (1979) Becoming a Mother, Oxford: Martin Robertson Oakley, Ann (1984) Taking It Like a Woman, London: Fontana O’Donovan, Katherine and Jill Marshall (2006) ‘After birth: decisions about becoming a mother’, in Alison Diduck and Katherine O’Donovan (Eds) Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Abingdon, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 123-138 Perrier, Maud (2013) ‘Middle-Class Mothers’ Moralities and “Concerted Cultivation”: Class Others, Ambivalence and Excess’, Sociology, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 655-670. Prilleltensky, O. (2003) ‘A Ramp to Motherhood: The Experiences of Mothers with Physical Disabilities’, Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 21-47 21 Prilleltensky, Ora (2004) Motherhood and Disability: Children and Choices, Houndmills, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Reynolds, T. (2005) Caribbean Mothers: Identity and Experience in the UK, London: Tufnell Press Ross, Ellen (1995) ‘New Thoughts on “The Oldest Vocation”: Mothers and Motherhood in Recent Feminist Scholarship’, Signs, Vol. 20, No. 2 Silva, Elizabeth B. (1999) ‘Transforming Housewifery: Dispositions, Practices and Technologies’, in Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart (Eds) The New Family?, London: Sage, pp. 48-65 Smyth, Lisa (2012) The Demands of Motherhood: Agents, Roles and Recognitions, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Snitow, Ann (1992) ‘Feminism and Motherhood: An American Reading’, Feminist Review, No. 40, pp. 32-51 Thomas, Carol (1997) ‘The baby and the bath water: Disabled women and motherhood in social context’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 622-643 Walkerdine, V. and Lucey, H. (1989) Democracy in the kitchen: Regulating Mothers and Socialising Daughters, London: Virago Woollett, Anne and Ann Phoenix (1991) ‘Psychological Views of Mothering’, in Anne Phoenix, Anne Woollett and Eva Lloyd (Eds) Motherhood: Meanings, practices and ideologies, London: Sage, pp. 28-46 Websites Mumsnet: http://www.mumsnet.com/ Netmums: http://www.netmums.com/ Working Families: http://www.workingfamilies.org.uk/ Working Mums: http://www.women-returners.co.uk/ 22 Week 5 Masculinity and Fatherhood: Beyond the Breadwinner Role? Maria Do Mar Pereira This week we turn our attention to the relationship between masculinity and fatherhood. Is fatherhood seen as an essential component of masculinity? Is this relationship limited to biological fatherhood – a sign of virility? The social aspects of fathering are not deemed to make the adult man in the way in which motherhood marks the transition to adult femininity. Rather it is entry into paid work that marks the rite de passage to adult status for males: the ‘breadwinner’ role. We shall consider new and old fatherhood discourses about what makes a ‘good’ father, including the concept and practice of a nurturing or involved fatherhood, and how this is differentiated by social class. In exploring the extent to which fatherhood is being reinvented in the 21st century we will also explore the reinvention, or not, of masculinities. Seminar Questions What is the dominant discourse of good fathering? How is good fathering differentiated by social class? Is fatherhood being reinvented? Is the fear of ‘fatherlessness’ warranted? Core Reading Halford, Susan (2006) ‘Collapsing the Boundaries? Fatherhood, Organization and Home-Working’, Gender, Work and Organization, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 383-402 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1740132~S1 Shows, Carla and Naomi Gerstel (2009) ‘Fathering, Class, and Gender: A comparison of Physicians and Emergency Medical Technicians’, Gender and Society, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 161-187 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1740130~S1 Walls, Glenda and Stephanie Arnold (2007) ‘How Involved is Involved Fathering?: An Exploration of the Contemporary Culture of Fatherhood’, Gender and Society, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 501-527 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1740130~S1 Additional Reading Bradshaw, J. et al (1999) Absent Fathers?, London: Routledge Collier, Richard (1999) ‘Men, heterosexuality and the changing family: (re)constructing fatherhood in law and social policy’, in Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright (Eds) Changing Family Values, London: Routledge, pp. 38-58 Collier, Richard and Sally Sheldon (2008) Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-legal Study, Oxford, Portland Oregon: Hart Publishing 23 Davies, Cynthia R. (Ed.) (1998) Lost Fathers: The Politics of Fatherlessness in America, Basingstoke: Macmillan Dennis, Norman and George Erdos (2000) Families Without Fatherhood, London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society (3rd edition) Doucet, Andrea (2013) ‘A “Choreography of Becoming”: Fathering, Embodied Care, and New Materialisms’, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 284–305 Dowd, Nancy (2000) Redefining Fatherhood, New York: NYU Press (Ch. 10 ‘Gender Challenges: Masculinities and Mothers’) Faludi, S. (1999) Stiffed: The Betrayal of Modern Man, London: Chatto and Windus Gerstel, Naomi and Sally K. Gallagher (2001) ‘Men’s Caregiving: Gender and the Contingent Character of Care’, Gender & Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 197-217 Greene, M. E. and A. E. Biddlecom (2000) ‘Absent and problematic men: demographic accounts of male reproductive roles’, Population and Development Review, Vol. 25, No. 3: pp. 81-116 Hamer, Jennifer and Kathleen Marchioro (2002) ‘Becoming Custodial Dads: Exploring parenting among low income and working class African American fathers’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 116-129 Harris, Ian M. (1995) Messages Men Hear: Constructing Masculinities, London: Taylor and Francis (Ch. 6 ‘Lovers’) Harwood, Susan (1997) Family Fictions: Representations of the Family in 1980s Hollywood Cinema, London: Macmillan (Ch. 5 ‘Backlash patriarch or the new man? The role of the father’ and pp. 184-185 ‘The nineties father: romance and parthenogenesis’) Henwood, Karen and Joanne Procter (2003) ‘The “good father”: Reading men’s accounts of paternal involvement during the transition to first-time fatherhood’, British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 337-355 Hobson, B. (Ed.) (2002) Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Hodges, Melissa L. and Michell J. Budig (2010) ‘Who Gets the Daddy Bonus? Organizational hegemonic masculinity and the impact of fatherhood on earnings’, Gender and Society, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 717-745 Irwin, Sarah (1999) ‘Resourcing the family: Gendered claims and obligations and issues of explanation’, in Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart (Eds) The New Family? London: Sage, pp. 31-45 Kilkey, Majella (2006) ‘New Labour and Reconciling Work and Family Life: Making it Father’s Business’, Social Policy and Society, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 167-175 24 Kimmel, Michael S., Jeff Hearn and R.W. Connell (Eds) (2005) Handbook of Studies on Men & Masculinities, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Krampe, Edythe M. (2009) ‘When is the Father Really There? A conceptual reformulation of father presence’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 875-897 Lees, Sue (1999) ‘Will boys be left on the shelf?’ in Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright (Eds) Changing Family Values, London: Routledge, pp. 59-76 Lupton, Deborah and Lesley Barclay (1997) Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences, London: Sage Marsiglio, William (2004) Stepdads: Stories of love, hope and repair, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Marsiglio, William and Ramon Hinojosa (2007) ‘Managing the Multifather Family: Stepfathers as Father Allies’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 845-862 Miller, Tina (2011) Making Sense of Fatherhood: Gender, caring and work, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press Morgan, Patricia (1999) Farewell to the Family?: Public Policy and Family Breakdown in Britain and the US, London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit Moore, Lisa Jean (2007) Sperm Counts: Overcome by man’s most precious fluid, New York: New York University Press, Ch. 3 (‘My sperm in shining armour: children’s books’) Natalier, Kristin and Belinda Hewitt (2010) ‘“It’s Not Just About the Money”: Non-resident Fathers’ Perspectives on Paying Child Support’, Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 489-505 Nelson, Timothy J. (2004) ‘Low-Income Fathers’, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 427-451 Norman, Dennis and George Erdos (2000) Families without Fatherhood, London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society Ruddick, Sara (1997) ‘The idea of fatherhood’, in H. L. Nelson (Ed.) Feminism and Families, London: Routledge Schindler, Holly S. (2010) ‘The Importance of Parenting and Financial Contributions in Promoting Fathers’ Psychological Health’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 318-332 Sheldon, S. (2003) ‘Unwilling Fathers and Abortion: Terminating Men’s Child Support Obligations’, The Modern Law Review, Vol. 66, No.2, pp. 175-194 Smart, Carol (2006) ‘The Ethic of Justice Strikes Back: Changing Narratives of Fatherhood’, in Alison Diduck and Katherine O’Donovan (Eds) Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Abingdon, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 123-138 25 Westwood, Sallie (1996) ‘“Feckless fathers”: Masculinities and the British state’, in Mairtin Mac an Ghaill (Ed.) Understanding Masculinities, Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 21-34 Additional Viewing BBC Four (2010) A Century of Fatherhood, originally broadcast in June 2010, 3 episodes. The three episodes are available on BobNational through the following links: episode 1 – The Good Father: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=32835&view=flash_player episode 2 – Fathers at War: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=32902&view=flash_player episode 3 – The New Father: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=33206&view=flash_player BBC Four (2010) Biology of Dads, originally broadcast on 22 June 2010. Available on BobNational: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=32631&view=flash_player BBC Four (2010) The Cinema Show: Father and Sons on Film, originally broadcast on 22 June 2010. Available on BobNational: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=32641&view=flash_player Websites Dad Talk: http://www.dad.info/ Fathers4Justice: http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/ Fatherhood Institute: http://www.fatherhoodinstitute.org/ Families Need Fathers: http://www.fnf.org.uk/ National Centre for Fathering: http://fathers.com/ Working Families: http://www.workingfamilies.org.uk/ Week 6 Reading Week There are no lectures or seminars this week for Transformations. Students should work on their class essay (due in week 7). Please note that this is not an official reading week in Sociology, and your other modules may require your attendance. We have a reading week in Transformations in term 1 as a result of student feedback, and it is made possible by us starting the module in week 1 of the academic year. 26 Week 7 Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can parenting ‘be’ what parenting ‘is’? Maria Do Mar Pereira The title of this week’s lecture is a variation on the cryptic question asked by Elizabeth Silva and Carol Smart in their book, The New Family. What they asked was whether definitions of ‘the family’ ever reflect the diversity of modern family forms. ‘The family’ has always carried strong normative overtones. It designates what ‘ought to be’ rather than what is, and, as we have seen, so does ‘parenting’, especially ‘mothering’. This week we shall look at the different types of parenting prevailing in modern society, including single motherhood and gay and lesbian parents. Can they all be included within the general definition of ‘good parenting’? Looking in detail at gay and lesbian parents we will consider their decision-making and strategies around parenting, the wider discourses and counter-discourses about their ‘fitness’ to parent and the challenges that they pose to heterosexual parenting. We will also look at how middle class single mothers are negotiating negative discourses of single motherhood. Seminar Questions Who decides who’s fit to be a parent? What criteria are used? What challenges to heterosexual parenting are posed by gay and lesbian parenting? Do families need fathers? Do they need mothers? How do middle class single mothers present themselves and what are the implications for other single mothers? Core Reading Bock, Jane D. (2000) ‘Doing the Right Thing? Single Mothers by Choice and the Struggle for Legitimacy’, Gender and Society, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 62-86 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1740130~S1 Campion, Mukti J. (1995) Who’s fit to be a parent? London: Routledge (Ch. 9 ‘Gay Parents’) Available as an E-book: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2072883~S1 Dunne, Gillian A. (2000) ‘Opting Into Motherhood: Lesbians Blurring the Boundaries and Transforming the Meaning of Parenthood and Kinship’, Gender and Society, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1135 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1740130~S1 Additional Reading Anderssen, N., C. Amlie and E. Ytteroy (2002) ‘Outcomes for Children with Lesbian or Gay Parents: A Review of Studies from 1978 to 2000’, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 335-351 Ben, Ari, Adital and T. Livni (2006) ‘Motherhood is Not a Given Thing: Experiences and Constructed Meanings of Biological and Nonbiological Lesbian Mothers’, Sex Roles, Vol. 54, Nos. 7-8, pp. 521-531 27 Biblarz, Timothy J. and Evren Savci (2010) ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 480-497 Bozett, Frederick W. (Ed.) (1987) Gay and Lesbian Parents, London: Praeger Clarke, V. (2001) ‘What about the Children? Arguments against Lesbian and Gay Parenting’, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 555- 570 Coleman, Marilyn and Lawrence H. Ganong (Eds) (2004) Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Davies, Jon (1993) ‘From household to family to individualism’ in Jon Davies (Ed.) The family – Is it just another lifestyle choice?, London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit Dempsey, Deborah (2010) ‘Lesbians and Gay Men Forming Families with Children’, Sociology, Vol. 44, pp. 1145-1162 Donovan, Catherine (2000) ‘Who Needs a Father? Negotiating Biological Fatherhood in British Lesbian Families Using Self-Insemination’, Sexualities, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 149-164 Duncan, Simon and Rosalind Edwards (1999) ‘Lone mothers, paid work and the underclass debate’, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 29-49 Duncan, Simon and Rosalind Edwards (Eds) (1999) Lone Mothers, Paid work and Gendered Moral Rationalities, Basingstoke: Macmillan Dunne, Gillian A. (1999) ‘A Passion for “Sameness”? Sexuality and Gender Accountability’, in Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart (Eds) The New Family? London: Sage, pp. 66-82 Dunne, Gillian A. (2000) ‘Opting into Motherhood: Lesbians Blurring the Boundaries and Transforming the Meaning of Parenthood and Kinship’, Gender & Society. Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 11-35 Edin, K. and M. Kefalas (2006) Promises I Can Keep: Why poor women put motherhood before marriage, Berkeley, California.: University of California Press Giddens, A. (1992) The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society, Cambridge: Polity Goldberg, Abbie E. and Katherine R. Allen (2007) ‘Imagining Men: Lesbian mothers’ perceptions of male involvement during the transition to parenthood’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 352-365 Griffin, Kate and Lisa A. Mulholland (Eds) (1997) Lesbian Motherhood in Europe, London and Washington: Cassell Hanscombe, G. (2006) ‘The Right to Lesbian Parenthood’, in H. Kuhse and P. Singer (Eds) Bioethics: An Anthology (2nd edition), Malden, MA, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell, pp. 104-107 28 Harne, Lynne (1984) ‘Lesbian custody and the new myth of the father’, Trouble and Strife, No. 3, pp. 12-14 Hayden, Corinne P. (1995) ‘Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship’, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 41-63 Hertz, Rosanna (2006) Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice, New York: Oxford University Press Hicks, Steven and Janet McDermott (Eds) (1999) Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary, London: Jessica Kingsley Hogben, S. and Coupland, J. (2000) ‘Egg seeks sperm…End of story? Articulating gay parenting in small ads for reproductive partners’, Discourse and Society, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 459-485 Hopkins, Jason et al (2013) ‘Same-Sex Couples, Families, and Marriage: Embracing and Resisting Heteronormativity’, Sociology Compass, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 97-110 Juran, Ali (1996) We are Family: Testimonies of Lesbian and Gay Parents, London: Cassell Kilkey, Majella (2000) Lone Mothers Between Paid Work and Care: The policy regime in twenty countries, Aldershot: Ashgate Klett-Davis, Martina (2007) Going it Alone?: Lone Motherhood in Late Modernity, Aldershot, Burlington: Ashgate Landau, J. (2009) ‘Straightening Out (the Politics of) Same-Sex Parenting: Representing Gay Families in US Print News Stories and Photographs’, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 80-100 Lapidus, J. (2004) ‘All the lesbian mothers are coupled, all the single mothers are straight, and all of us are tired: Reflections on being a single lesbian mom’, Feminist Economics, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 227-236 Levine, Nancy (2008) ‘Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction’, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 375-389 Mamo, Laura (2013) ‘Queering the Fertility Clinic’, Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 227-239 Mann, Kirk and Sasha Roseneil (1999) ‘Poor choices?: Gender, agency and the underclass debate’, in Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright (Eds) Changing Family Values, London: Routledge, pp. 98-118 Morgan, Patricia (1999) (2nd edition) Farewell to the Family, London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit (Ch. 1 ‘The Breaking of the Modern Family’) Morgan, Patricia (2000) Marriage-lite, London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society Morgan, Patricia (2007) The War Between the State and the Family: How government divides and impoverishes, London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society 29 Naples, Nancy A. (2004), ‘Queer Parenting in the New Millennium’, Gender & Society, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 679-684 Neubeck, K. and Cazenave, N. (2001) Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against American’s Poor, London: Routledge Nordqvist, Petra (2010) ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Family Resemblances in Lesbian Donor Conception’, Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 1128-1144 Nordqvist, Petra (2012) ‘‘I don’t want us to stand out more than we already do’: Complexities and negotiations in lesbian couples’ accounts of becoming a family through donor conception’, Sexualities, Vol. 15, No. 5-6, pp. 644-661 O’Donnell, Kath (1999) ‘Lesbian and gay families: Legal perspectives’ in Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright (Eds) Changing Family Values, London: Routledge, pp. 77-97 O’Neill, O. (2000) ‘The “Good Enough Parent” in the Age of the New Reproductive Technologies’, in H.B. Baker and D. Beyleved (Eds) The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 33-48 Olsen, R. and Clarke, H. (2003) Parenting And Disability: Disabled Parents’ Experiences Of Raising Children, Bristol: Policy Press Popenoe, David (1999) Life Without Father: Compelling new evidence that fatherhood and marriage are indispensable for the good of children and society, London, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press Ryan-Flood, Roisin (2009) Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ryan-Flood, Roisin (2011) ‘Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care’, in Rosalind Gill and Christine Scharff (Eds) New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 246-264 Smart, Carol (1999) ‘The “new” parenthood: Fathers and mothers after divorce’, in Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart (Eds) The New Family? London: Sage, pp. 100-114 Song, M. and Edwards, R. (1997) ‘Raising questions on the perspectives of black lone motherhood’, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 233-244 Sparks, Holloway (2004) ‘Queens, Teens and Model Mothers’, in Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss and Richard Fording (Eds) Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 171-195 Touroni, Elena and Adrian Coyle (2002) ‘Decision-Making in Planned Lesbian Parenting: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis’, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 12, pp. 194-209 Zanghellini, Aleardo (2010) ‘Lesbian and Gay Parents and Reproductive Technologies: The 2008 Australian and UK Reforms’, Feminist Legal Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 227-251 30 Additional Viewing BBC One (2010) The British Family: Our History – Episode 2: Children, originally broadcast on 23 March. Available on BobNational: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=27697&view=flash_player BBC Three (2011) Shame About Single Mums, originally broadcast on August 30. Available on BobNational: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=67068&view=flash_player Websites Disabled Parents Network: http://disabledparentsnetwork.org.uk/ Gingerbread: Single Parents, Equal Families: http://www.gingerbread.org.uk/ New Family Social: UK Network for LGBT Adoptive and Foster Families: https://www.newfamilysocial.org.uk/?gclid=CJeNprz047kCFZMbtAodJkcACA Pink Parents: Gay and Lesbian Parenting Issues: http://www.pinkparents.org.uk/ Single Parent Action Network: Empowering One Parent Families: http://spanuk.org.uk/ The Centre for Separated Families: http://www.separatedfamilies.info/ We Are Family: Magazine for Alternative Families: http://www.wearefamilymagazine.co.uk/ 31 Week 8 Embodied Experiences of Pregnancy in a Technological Age Maria Do Mar Pereira In this session we will discuss some of the ways in which reproductive science and technology has reshaped the embodied experience of pregnancy for pregnant women, their partners and medical professionals. The increasing importance of seeing the foetus rather than feeling its movement will be a key point of discussion. We will explore the ways in which reproductive technologies are sometimes experienced as empowering and reassuring, and sometimes as alienating and disempowering. We will discuss the ways in which these technologies can be used in the surveillance and regulation of women’s bodies and in the ‘quality control’ of the children they may produce. The question of ‘foetal rights’ and of abortion will be considered in the context of the social pressure to produce perfect children. Finally we will discuss the ways in which women’s bodies appear to become public property once they become pregnant bodies. Seminar Questions How does ‘visual knowledge’ impact upon women’s embodied experience of their pregnancies? What does it mean for men? In what ways do women and men experience the pressure to produce a healthy baby? Do women have the choice not to utilise reproductive medicine? How has ‘visual knowledge’ of pregnancy impacted on the abortion debate? Core Reading Draper, Jan (2002) ‘“It Was a Real Good Show”: the Ultrasound Scan, Fathers and the Power of Visual Knowledge’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 771-795 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1745238~S1 Petchesky, Rosalind (1987) ‘Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction’, Feminist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 263-292 Available as an E- journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739916~S4 Reed, Kate (2009) ‘‘It’s them faulty genes again’: women, men and the gendered nature of genetic responsibility in prenatal blood screening’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 343359 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1745238~S1 Roberts, Julie (2013) The Visualised Foetus: A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound, Farnham; Burlington, VT : Ashgate (Ch. 2 ‘Ultrasound and its Application to Obstetrics’) Available as an E-book: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2654693 Additional Reading Alderson, Priscilla, Clare Williams and Bobbie Farsides (2004) ‘Practitioners’ Views About Equity Within Prenatal Services’, Sociology, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 61-80 32 Asch, A. (2006) ‘Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy’, in H. Kuhse and P. Singer (Eds) Bioethics: An Anthology (2nd edition), Malden, MA, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell, pp. 122-136 Balsamo, Anne (1996) Technologies of the Gendered Body, Durham & London: Duke University Press (Ch. 4 ‘Public Pregnancies’) Browner, C.H. (2007) ‘Can Gender ‘Equity’ in Prenatal Genetic Services Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority?’, in Marcia Inhorn (Ed.) Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, technology and biopiolitics in the new millennium, New York: Berghahn Books Cahill, Heather A. (2001) ‘Male Appropriation and Medicalization of Childbirth: an Historical Analysis’, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 334-342 Copelton, Denise A. (2007) ‘“You are what you eat”: Nutritional norms, maternal deviance, and neutralization of women’s prenatal diets’, Deviant Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 467-494 Dworkin, Shari L., and Faye Linda Wachs (2004) ‘“Getting your Body Back”: Postindustrial Fit Motherhood in Shape Fit Pregnancy Magazine’, Gender & Society, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 610-624 Earle, Sarah (2003) ‘“Bumps and Boobs”: Fatness and Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy’, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 26, No. 3 pp. 245-252 Earle, Sarah and Cathy Lloyd (2012) ‘Diabetes and the Pregnancy Paradox: The Loss of Expectations and Reproductive Futures’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 65-78 Farrant, Wendy (1985) ‘Who’s for Amniocentesis? The Politics of Prenatal Screening’, in Hilary Homans (Ed.) The Sexual Politics of Reproduction, Aldershot: Gower Gammeltoft, T. and Hạnh Thị Thuý Nguyễn (2007) ‘The Commodification of Obstetric Ultrasound Scanning in Hanoi, Viet Nam’, Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 15, No. 29, pp. 163-171 Ivry, Tsipy (2007) ‘Embodied Responsibilities: Pregnancy in the Eyes of Japanese Ob-Gyns’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 251-274 Ivry, Tsipy (2009) ‘The Ultrasonic Picture Show and the Politics of Threatened Life’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 189-211 Jackson, Emily (2001) Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, Oxford, Portland Oregan: Hart Publishing (Ch. 4 ‘Pregnancy and Childbirth’) Kaplan, E. Ann (1994) ‘Look Who’s Talking, Indeed: Fetal Images in Recent North American Visual Culture’, in E. N. Glenn et al (Eds) Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, New York & London: Routledge, pp. 121-137 Locock, Louise and J. Alexander (2006) ‘“Just a bystander”? Men’s Place in the Process of Fetal Screening and Diagnosis’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 62, pp. 1349-1359 33 Longhurst, Robyn (2001) ‘Breaking Corporeal Boundaries: Pregnant Bodies in Public Spaces’ in Ruth Holliday and John Hassard (Eds) Contested Bodies, London: Routledge Markens, Susan, Carole H. Browner, and H. Mabel Preloran (2003), ‘“'I'm not the one they're sticking the needle into”: Latino couples, fetal diagnosis, and the discourse of reproductive rights’, Gender & Society, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 452-481 Markens, Susan, Carole H. Browner and H. Mabel Preloran (2009) ‘Interrogating the dynamics between power, knowledge and pregnant bodies in amniocentesis decision making’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 37-56 Martin, Emily (1992) The Woman in the Body: a Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, London: Beacon Press Morgan, Lynn M. & Meredith Michaels (Eds) (1999) Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Morris, Therese and Katherine McInerney (2010) ‘Media Representations of Pregnancy and Childbirth: An Analysis of Reality Television Programs in the United States’, Birth, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 134-140 Oakley, Ann (1984) The Captured Womb: a History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Overall, Christine (2012) Why Have Children: The ethical debate, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (Ch. 8 ‘Illness, Impairment and the Procreation Debate’) Purdy, L.M. (2006) ‘Are Pregnant Women Fetal Containers’, in H. Kuhse and P. Singer (Eds) Bioethics: An Anthology (2nd edition), Malden, MA, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell, pp. 63-76 Rapp, Rayna (1999) Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, London, New York: Routledge Roberts, Julie (2012) The Visualised Foetus: a Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery, Farnham: Ashgate Rothman, Barbara Katz (1988) The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood, London: Pandora Sagrestano, Lynda M. and Ruthbeth Finerman (2012) ‘Pregnancy and Prenatal Care: A Reproductive Justice Perspective’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 201-230 Sandelowski, Margarete (1994) ‘Separate, but Less Unequal: Fetal Ultrasonography and the Transformation of Expectant Mother/Fatherhood’, Gender and Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 230-245 Savage, Julie (2012) ‘Reconstructing Childbirth Expectations after Pre-eclampsia’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 51-63 34 Selin, H. and P.K. Stone (Eds) (2009) Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum, Dordrecht; New York: Springer Taylor, J. S. (2000) ‘Of sonograms and baby prams: Prenatal diagnosis, pregnancy, and consumption’, Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 391-418 Tyler, Imogen (2011) ‘Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities Under Neoliberalism’, in Rosalind Gill and Christine Scharff (Eds) New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-36 Warren, Samantha and Joanna Brewis (2004) ‘Matter Over Mind? Examining the Experience of Pregnancy’, Sociology, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 219-236 Williams, Clare (2006) ‘Dilemmas in fetal medicine: premature application of technology or responding to women's choice?’, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1–20 Zechmeister, I. (2001) ‘Foetal Images: The Power of Visual Technology in Antenatal Care and the Implications for Women’s Reproductive Freedom’, Health Care Analysis, Vol. 9, pp. 387–400 Websites Baby and Bump: http://babyandbump.momtastic.com/ Baby Centre: http://community.babycentre.co.uk/ MumsNet Pregnancy: http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy Pregnancy Forum: http://www.pregnancyforum.co.uk/ 35 Week 9 Giving Birth to Children and Mothers Maria Do Mar Pereira Bearing in mind that not all pregnancies result in child-birth, this session will explore some of the main issues surrounding contemporary childbirth. Particular attention will be paid to the role of the medical profession in birth and the potential conflicts that might arise between birthing women and their ‘caregivers’. By considering the mechanistic metaphors that have underpinned medical understandings of women’s bodies and the birthing process we will also discuss some of the ways in which women have managed to resist the imposition of particular medical interventions into their birthing experience. We will further explore the ways that ‘race’ and class, for example, affect the way that ‘expectant mothers’’ behaviour is constructed. Finally we will consider the work of midwives and how they navigate the ‘emotion-work’ of helping women to give birth. Seminar Questions What impacts have the machine metaphor and the production metaphor had on medical practices in childbirth? In what ways is the work of health professionals in birth influenced by both health policy and personal ideology? What discourses and other resources do women from different socioeconomic backgrounds draw upon in their compliance with or resistance to medical management of their childbirthing? Core Reading Fox, Bonnie and Diana Worts (1999) ‘Revisiting the Critique of Medicalized Childbirth: A Contribution to the Sociology of Birth’, Gender and Society, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 326-346 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1740130~S4 Hunter, Billie (2004) ‘Conflicting ideologies as a source of emotion work in Midwifery’, Midwifery, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 261-272 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1749745~S4 Lupton, Deborah and Virginia Schmied (2013) ‘Splitting bodies/selves: women’s concepts of embodiment at the moment of birth’, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 828–841 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1745238~S1 Martin, Emily (2001) The Woman in the Body, Boston: Beacon Press, Ch. 4 ‘Medical Metaphors of Women’s Bodies: Birth’, pp. 54-70 [See also ch. 8, ‘Birth, Resistance, Race and Class’] Available as an E-book: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2072866~S1 Additional Reading Berg, A. (2002) Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930, Urbana, University of Illinois Press 36 Bledsoe, Caroline H. and Rachel Scherrer (2007) ‘The Dialectics of Disruption: Paradoxes of Nature and Professionalism in Contemporary American Childbearing’, in Marcia Inhorn (Ed.) Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, technology and biopolitics in the new millennium, New York: Berghahn Books Bowler, I. (1993) ‘They’re Not the Same as Us: Midwives' Stereotypes of South Asian Descent Maternity Patients’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 157-178 Carter, Shannon K. (2010) ‘Beyond control: body and self in women’s childbearing narratives’, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 993-1009 Davies, Lorna, Rae Daellenbach and Mary Kensington (2011) Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth, Abingdon; New York: Routledge Davis-Floyd, Robbie (1992) Birth as an American Rite of Passage, Berkeley, London: University of California Press Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. and Carolyn F. Sargent (1997) Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-cultural Perspectives, Berkeley: University of California Press Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Grace Chang and Linda Rennie Forcey (Eds) (1994) Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, New York; London: Routledge Halfon, Saul (2010) ‘Encountering Birth: Negotiating Expertise, Networks, and My STS Self’, Science as Culture, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 61-77 Hunt, S. and A. Symonds (1995) The Social Meaning of Midwifery Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan Jackson, Emily (2001) Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, Oxford, Portland Oregon: Hart Publishing (ch. 4 'Pregnancy and Childbirth') Johanson, Richard, Mary Newburn and Alison Macfarlane (2002) ‘Has the Medicalisation of Childbirth Gone Too Far?’, British Medical Journal, No. 324, pp. 892-895 Katbamna, Savita (2000) ‘Race’ and Childbirth, Milton Keynes: Open University Press Kent, D. (2002) ‘Beyond Expectations: Being Blind and Becoming a Mother’, Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 81-88 Kirkham, M. (1999) ‘The culture of midwifery in the National Health Service in England’, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 30 No. 3, pp. 732-739 Longhurst, Robyn (2009) 'YouTube: A new space for birth?', Feminist Review, Vol. 93, No.1, pp. 46-63 Machizawa, Sayaka and Kayoko Hayashi (2012) ‘Birthing Across Cultures: Towards the Humanization of Childbirth’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 231-250 Martin, Emily (1992) The Woman in the Body, Boston: Beacon Press 37 Martin, Karen A. (2003) ‘Giving Birth Like a Girl’, Gender and Society, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 54-72 Murphy-Lawless, Jo (1998) Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press Pollock, Stella (1999) Telling Bodies, Performing Birth: Everyday narratives of childbirth, New York: Columbia University Press Ragone, Helena and Frances W. Twine (Eds) (2000) Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism, New York: Routledge Rothman, Barbara Katz (1989) Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchal Society, New York: Norton Selin, H. and P.K. Stone (Eds) (2009) Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum, Dordrecht; New York: Springer Simonds, W. (2002) ‘Watching the Clock: keeping time during pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 559-570 Walsh, Denis (2006) Small is Beautiful: Improving Maternity Services – lessons from a Birth Centre, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing Walsh, Denis (2009) ‘Childbirth embodiment: problematic aspects of current understandings’, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 486–501 Witz, A. (1992) Professions and Patriarchy, London: Routledge (Especially Chapter 4 ‘Medical Men and Midwives’) Additional Viewing BBC Three (2010) Cherry Has a Baby, originally broadcast September 2010, available on BobNational: http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=36613&view=flash_player Websites Make Women Matter: http://www.makewomenmatter.org/ Maternity Action: http://www.maternityaction.org.uk/ Maternity Worldwide: http://www.maternityworldwide.org/the-issues/ National Childbirth Trust: http://www.nct.org.uk/ WHO Maternal Mortality: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs348/en/ 38 Week 10 The Feminist Politics of Infant Feeding: Is ‘Breast Best’? Caroline Wright Historically mothers breastfed their babies or, if they were unable or unwilling to do that, their babies were mostly breastfed by another woman, a practice known as wet-nursing. In the late 19th century the first artificial commercial infant food was developed, and, as wet-nursing declined in popularity and the marketing of formula intensified, breastfeeding began to decline. Public health messages since the 1970s have sought to reverse this decline through a ‘breast is best’ narrative. This week we’ll be considering the politics of infant feeding and the claims and counter claims made in favour of breastfeeding. We’ll also pay attention to women’s experiences of breastfeeding and bottlefeeding, and the difficulties they may face if they want to breastfeed. Breastfeeding is inherently gendered and embodied, and the debates about it and women’s relation to it connect with discourses of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothering and the mother-child bond, as well as the sexualisation of women’s breasts and the public-private divide. Binary oppositions of nature vs. commerce; health benefit vs. health risk; sustainable vs. unsustainable; choice vs. duty; dependence vs. autonomy can also be identified. Seminar Questions On what medical, environmental and social grounds is it argued that ‘breast is best’ for infant feeding? What counter-arguments can be identified? To what extent are women’s experiences of breastfeeding at odds with the ‘breast is best’ narrative? How do women who bottle-feed navigate the ‘breast is best’ narrative? How is breastfeeding differentiated by the social class of the mother and what factors might explain this differentiation? Why is breastfeeding such a ‘vexed feminist issue’ (Schmied and Lupton, 2010)? Why is the international marketing of infant formula so controversial? Core Reading and Viewing BBC Three (2011) Is Breast Best? Cherry Healey Investigates, originally broadcast on April 12. Available at http://bobnational.net/programme.php?archive=56025&view=flash_player Lee, Ellie J. (2008) ‘Living with Risk in the Age of “Intensive Motherhood”: Maternal Identity and Infant Feeding’, Health, Risk and Society, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 467-477 Available as an E-journal article: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1740370 Schmied, Virginia and Deborah Lupton (2001) ‘Blurring the Boundaries: Breastfeeding and Maternal Subjectivity’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 234-250 Available as an E-journal article: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1745238 Van Esterik, Penny (2013) ‘The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Approach’, in Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik (Eds) Food and Culture: A Reader, New York: Routledge, pp. 510-530, Available online: http://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/faculty/esterik/documents/Food_culture_penny.pdf Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 39 Additional Reading Abrahams, Sheryl (2012) ‘Milk and Social Media’, Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 400-406 Bobel, Christina G. (2001) ‘Bounded Liberation: A Focused Study of La Leche League International’, Gender & Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 130-151 Britton, Cathryn (1998) ‘“Feeling Letdown” An exploration of an embodied sensation associated with breastfeeding’, in Sarah Nettleton and Jonathan Watson (Eds) The Body in Everyday Life, London; New York: Routledge, pp. 65-82 Callaghan, Jane E.M. and Lisa Lazard (2012) ‘“Please don’t put the whole dang thing out there!”: A discursive analysis of internet discussions around infant feeding’, Psychology and Health, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 938-955 Chetley, Andrew (1979) The Baby Killer Scandal: A War on Want investigation into the promotion and sale of powdered milks in the Third World, London: War on Want Gong, Qian and Peter Jackson (2012) ‘Consuming Anxiety?: Parenting Practices in China after the Infant Formula Scandal’, Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 557-578 Hausman, Bernice L. (2004) ‘The Feminist Politics of Breastfeeding’, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 19, No. 45, pp. 273-285 Hausman, Bernice L. (2007) ‘Things (Not) to Do with Breasts in Public: Maternal Embodiment and the Biocultural Politics of Infant Feeding’, New Literary History, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 479-504 Johnstone-Robledo, Ingrid, Stephanie Wares, Jessica Fricker and Pasek Leigh (2007) Indecent Exposure: Self-objectification and Young Women’s Attitudes Towards Breastfeeding’, Sex Roles, Vol. 56, Nos. 7-8, pp. 429-437 Johnstone-Robledo, Ingrid and Alison Murray (2012) ‘Reproductive Justice for Women and Infants: Restoring Women’s Postpartum Health and Infant-feeding Options’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 269-288 Knaak, Stephanie (2010) ‘Contextualising Risk, Constructing Choice: Breastfeeding and good mothering in risk society’, Health, Risk & Society, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 345-355 Kuttai, Heather (2011) ‘Nurturing the Nurturer: Reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability and physical trauma’, in Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio (Eds) Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press Lee, Ellie J. (2007) ‘Infant Feeding in Risk Society’, Health, Risk and Society, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 295-309 McCaughey, Martha (2010) ‘Got Milk?: Breastfeeding as an “Incurably Informed” Feminist STS Scholar’, Science as Culture, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 79-100 40 McCarter-Spaulding, Deborah (2008) ‘Is Breastfeeding Fair?: Tensions in Feminist Perspectives on Breastfeeding and the Family’, Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 206-212 Murtagh, Lindsey and Anthony Moulton (2011) ‘Working Mothers, Breastfeeding and the Law’, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 217-223 Palmer, Gabrielle (2009) The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business, London: Pinter and Martin Ltd (on order for library) Perdue, Robert Todd, Joshua Sbicca and Jeanne Halcomb (2012) ‘ A Life Cycle Approach to Food Justice: The Case of Breastfeeding’, Environmental Justice, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 168-172 Regan, Paul and Elaine Ball (2013) ‘Breastfeeding Mothers’ Experiences’, Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 679-688 Rippeyoung, Phyllis L.F. and Mary C. Noonan (2012) ‘Is Breastfeeding Truly Cost Free? Income Consequences of Breastfeeding for Women’, American Sociological Review, Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 244267 Stevens, Emily E. (2009) ‘A History of Infant Feeding’, Journal of Perinatal Education, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 32-39 Sundhagen, Rebecca (2009) ‘Breastfeeding and Child Spacing’, in H. Selin and P.K. Stone (Eds) Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum, Dordrecht; New York: Springer, pp. 23-32 Tarrant, Roslyn C., Margaret Sheridan-Pereira, Roberta A. McCarthy, Katherine M. Younger and John M. Kearney (2013) ‘Mothers who Formula Feed: Their Practices, Support Needs and Factors Influencing their Infant Feeding Decision’, Child Care in Practice, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 78-94 Traina, Cristina L.H. (2011) Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality Between Unequals, Chicago: Chicago University Press Turner, Paaige K. and Kristen Norwood (2013) ‘Unbounded Motherhood: Embodying a Good Working Mother Identity’, Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 396-424 Weiner, Lynn Y. (1994) ‘Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America’ Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 1357-1381 41 Websites Baby Milk Action: http://info.babymilkaction.org/nestlefree International Baby Food Action Network: http://www.ibfan.org/ La Leche League GB: Friendly Breastfeeding Support from Pregnancy Onwards: http://www.laleche.org.uk/ Love Mums: Support for Feeding Your Baby: http://www.lovemums.org.uk/ NHS Advice (See ‘Your Newborn’ on top blue menu bar): http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/ National Childbirth Trust: http://www.nct.org.uk/professional/research/feeding-babies The Breastfeeding Network: http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/about-us.html UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative: http://www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/ 42 Week 11 Social and Cultural Politics of Adoption Maria Do Mar Pereira Parenthood is often regarded as a natural and inevitable part of the life cycle, yet individuals do not possess an inalienable/innate right to parent children. Nowhere perhaps is this more evident than in the area of adoption. This lecture looks historically at adoption practices both in the UK and internationally. Ideologies about who constitutes the ‘fit’ parent have influenced UK adoption policy, notions of ‘fitness’ themselves overlaid with particular ideas about ‘race’, social class, gender and sexuality. Although since 2005 legislation in England defines any family structure as appropriate for a child’s upbringing, single men still face restrictions on adoption and gay couples face resistance. This lecture will also consider the ‘race’, class and cross/transcultural politics of adoption, looking at how policy has shifted over time and asking what is in the best interests of the child. Finally we will explore the rising trend of inter-country adoption, which raises further questions about neo-colonialism and the global commodification of children. Seminar Questions How have class, sexuality and gender shaped UK social policy around adoption? Is transracial adoption ‘in the best interest of the child’ or the best interests of society? What structures transnational adoption and does it matter? Core Reading Betts, Gloria (1994) ‘Gloria’s Story’, in Ivor Gabor and Jane Aldridge (Eds) In the Best Interests of the Child: Culture, Identity and Transracial Adoption, London: Free Association Books, pp. 6-11 Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Bhabha, Jacqueline (2004) ‘Moving Babies: Globalization, Markets and Transracial Adoption’, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 181-198 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739984~S1 [search through HeinOnline Jnl Library] Hicks, Stephen (2011) Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting: Families, Intimacies, Genealogies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Ch. 7 ‘State’, pp. 174-206) Available as an E-book: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2587338 Additional Reading Bharadwaj, Aditya (2003) ‘Why Adoption is not an Option in India: The visibility of infertility, the secrecy of donor insemination, and other cultural complexities’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 1867-1880 Briggs, L. (2003) ‘Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and the Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption’, Gender & History, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 179-200 43 Campion, Mukhti J. (1995) Who’s Fit to be a Parent? Routledge: London (Ch. 2 ‘Other People’s Children: Who’s Fit to Adopt?’) Dorow, S. K. (2006) Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender and Kinship, New York: New York University Press Fogg-Davis, Hawley (2002) The Ethics of Transracial Adoption, Ithaca: Cornell University Press Gaber, Ivor and Jane Aldridge (1994) In the best interest of the child: culture, identity and transracial adoption, London: Free Association Books Grice, H. (2005) ‘Transracial Adoption Narratives: Prospects and Perspectives’, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 124-148 Harris-Short, S. (2012) ‘Holding onto the past? Adoption, birth parents and the law in the twentyfirst century’, in R. Probert and C. Barton (Eds) Fifty Years in Family Law, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 147-160 Hearst, Alice (2009) ‘Children, International Human Rights, and the Politics of Belonging’, in Martha A. Fineman and Karen Worthington (Eds) What is Right for Children?, Farnham; Burlington: Ashgate, pp. 329-347 Hicks, Stephen and Janet McDermott (Eds) (1999) Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary yet Ordinary, London: J. Kingsley Hicks, Stephen (2005) ‘Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption: A brief UK history’, Adoption and Fostering, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp.42-56 Howe, David (1992) Half A Million Women: Mothers Who Lose Their Children by Adoption, London: Penguin Books Howell, Signe (2006) The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective, Oxford: Berghahn Books Humphrey, M. and H. Humphrey (1993) Intercountry Adoption: Practical Experiences, London: Routledge (Ch. 9) Judith, M. (2001) ‘Intercountry Adoption: A Global Problem or a Global Solution?’, Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 141-154 Kay, Jackie (1991) The Adoption Papers, Newcastle: Bloodaxe Kirton, Derek (2000) Race, Ethnicity and Adoption, Milton Keynes: Open University Press Mandell, Betty Reid (1973) Where Are The Children? A Class Analysis of Foster Care and Adoption, London: Lexington Books Millar, Ian and Christina Paulson-Ellis (2009) Exploring Infertility Issues in Adoption, London: British Association for Adoption and Fostering 44 Morgan, Patricia (1999) Adoption: The Continuing Debate, IEA Health and Welfare Unit Mortimer, Claudia (1994) Immigration and Adoption, London: Trentham Books/SOAS Nijhoff, M. (1993) Parenthood in Modern Society: Legal and Social Issues for the Twenty First Century, London: Dodrecht Owen, Gill and Barbara Jackson (1983) Adoption and Race: Black Asian and Mixed Race Children in White Families, London: Batsford Academic Books/BAAF Park, Shelley (2006) ‘Adoptive Maternal Bodies: A Queer Paradigm for Rethinking Mothering?’, Hypatia, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 201-226 Roberts, Dorothy (1999) Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, Vintage Books, New York (Chapter 6) Selman, Peter (Ed.) (2000) Intercountry Adoption: Devlopments, Trends and Perspectives, London: British Agencies for Fostering and Adoption Seymour, Natalie (2007) In Black and White: The story of an open transracial adoption, London: British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering Simon, Rita (1994) The Case for Transracial Adoption, London: American University Press Simon, Rita and Howard Alstein (2004) Adoption, Race and Identity, From Infancy to Young Adulthood, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers Smolin, David M. (2006) ‘Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children’, Wayne Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 113-200 Weise, Jacqueline (1988) Transracial Adoption: A Black Perspective, Norwich: Social Work Monographs Yngvesson, B. (2010) Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity and Transnational Adoption, Chicago: University of Chicago Press Additional Listening: BBC Radio debate about adoption and black families: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/09/14/blacklondon_feature.shtml Interviews with an African-American father adopting a white child: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16611567 http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/11/white_kid_black_family_transra.html 45 Websites: Adoption UK: http://www.adoptionuk.org/ Alliance for Children: http://www.allforchildren.org/ British Association of Adoption and Fostering: http://www.baaf.org.uk/ Children’s Hope International: http://www.childrenshopeint.org/on International Adoption Net: http://www.internationaladoptionnet.org/ LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week: http://www.lgbtadoptfosterweek.org.uk/ UNICEF Position on International Adoption (against): http://www.unicef.org/media/media_41118.html Parents and Children Together (PACT): http://www.pactcharity.org/adoption_and_fostering Stonewall: Adoption and Fostering: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/at_home/parenting/2624.asp 46 Week 12 Timing Parenthood Maria Do Mar Pereira This week’s lecture focuses on the timing of parenthood, and in particular, the normative boundaries that demarcate the ‘right’ time to become a parent (and especially a mother). By looking at the narratives, representations and experiences of older and younger parents, we will explore the multiple factors that influence the timing of parenthood, the challenges that younger and older parents encounter, and the ways in which moral panics around early and late motherhood impact upon the lived experiences of those becoming parents outside of the ‘right’ time. Seminar Questions Is there a ‘right’ time to become a parent? What factors impact upon the timing of parenthood? What do the moral panics around younger and older motherhood have in common? How are they different? Core Reading and Listening BBC Radio Four (2013) More or Less: How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?, originally broadcast on 13 September. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039rwd0 Gryn, Naomi (2012) ‘Why I’m having my first baby at 51’, Guardian Weekend, 10 November, Available online (see also the comments below the article): http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/09/having-first-baby-at-51 Kirkman, Maggie et al (2001) ‘“I know I’m doing a good job”: canonical and autobiographical narratives of teenage mothers’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 279-294 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739068~S1 Shelton, N. and Johnson, S. (2006) ‘“I think motherhood for me was a bit like a double-edged sword”: the narratives of older mothers’, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 316-330 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1741658~S1 Additional Reading Aarvold, J. and C. Buswell (1999) ‘Very Young Motherhood: Whose Problem?’, Youth and Policy, No.64, pp. 1-14 Allen, I. and S. Bourke (1998) Teenage mothers: decisions and outcomes, London: Policy Studies Institute Berryman, Julia (1991) ‘Perspectives on later motherhood’, in Phoenix et al (Eds) Motherhood: Meanings, practices and ideologies, London: Sage 47 Bullen, Elizabeth et al (2000) ‘New Labour, Social Exclusion and Educational Risk Management: the case of gymslip mums’, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 441-456 Breheny, Mary and Christine Stephens (2007) ‘Individual Responsibility and Social Constraint: The construction of adolescent motherhood in social scientific research’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 333-346 Byrne, Bridget (2006) ‘In Search of a Good Mix: “Race”, Class, Gender and Practices of Mothering’, Sociology, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1001-1017 Carolan, Mary (2005) ‘Doing it Properly: the experience of first mothering over 35 years’, Health Care for Women International, Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 764-787 Cutas, Daniela (2007) ‘Postmenopausal Motherhood: Immoral, Illegal? A case study’, Bioethics, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 458-463 De Carvalho, Joao Eduardo Coin (2007) ‘How Can a Child be a Mother: Discourse on teenage pregnancy in a Brazilian favela’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.109-120 Duncan, Simon (2005) ‘Mothering, Class and Rationality’, Sociological Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 50-76 Duncan, Simon, Rosalind Edwards and Claire Alexancer (2010) Teenage Parents: What’s the Problem?, London: Tufnell Press Earle, Sarah and Gale Letherby (2007) ‘Conceiving Time?: Women who do or do not conceive’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 233-250 Edwards M.E. (2002) ‘Education and Occupations: Reexamining the Conventional Wisdom About Later First Births Among American Mothers’, Sociological Forum, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 423-443 Finlay, A. (1996) ‘Teenage Pregnancy, romantic love and social science - an uneasy relationship’, in V. James and J. Gabe (Eds) Health and the Sociology of Emotions, Oxford: Blackwell Fuller, Sylvia, et al (2008) ‘Constructing “active citizenship”: Single mothers, welfare and the logics of voluntarism’, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.157-176 Hawkes, G. (1995) ‘Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Young Women and Family Planning’, Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 257-273 Heilborn, Maria Luiza et al. (2007) ‘Teenage Pregnancy and Moral Panic in Brazil’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp.403-414 Higginson, Joanna (1998) ‘Competitive Parenting: The Culture of Teen Mothers’, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 135-149 Holgate, S., Evans, R and Yuen, F K O (Eds) (2006) Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood: Global Perspectives, Issues and Interventions, London: Routledge 48 Hudson, F. and B. Ineichen (1991) Taking it Lying down: Sexuality and Teenage Motherhood Basingstoke: Macmillan Kidger, Judi (2005) ‘Stories of Redemption? Teenage Mothers as the New Sex Educators’, Sexualities, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 481-496 Kiernan, K. (1997) ‘Becoming a Young Parent’, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 406-428 Kluger, Jeffrey et al (2013) ‘Too Old to be a Dad?’, Time, Vol. 181, No. 15, pp. 38-43 Lawson, A. and D. L. Rhode (1993) The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent sexuality and public policy, New Haven, London: Yale University Press Luker, K. (1996) Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy, Cambridge MA; London: Harvard University Press MacIntyre, S. and Cunningham-Burley, S. (1993) ‘Teenage Pregnancy as a social problem: a perspective from the United Kingdom’, in A. Lawson and D. Rhode (Eds) The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy, New Haven: Yale University Press McDermott, E. and H. Graham (2005) ‘Resilient young mothering: social inequalities, late modernity and the “problem” of “teenage” motherhood’, Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 59-79 Mills, M. et al (2011) ‘Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives’, Human Reproduction Update, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 848-860 Perrier, M. (2013) ‘No Right Time: Younger and Older Mothers' Accounts of Timing Motherhood’, Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 69-87 Phoenix, A. (1991) Young Mothers?, Cambridge: Polity Press Rolfe, Alison (2008), ‘ “You’ve Got to Grow Up When You’ve Got a Kid”: Marginalised young women’s accounts of motherhood’, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 299-314 Rosenthal, J. L., R.C. Zimmermann and M.V. Sauer (1997) ‘The desire for childbearing in women of advanced reproductive age: findings in a donor oocyte program’, Fertility and Sterility Supplement 1, 18 October, pp. 179-180 Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists (2009) ‘RCOG Statement of Later Maternal Age’, Press release, issued 15 June, Available Online: http://www.rcog.org.uk/what-we-do/campaigningand-opinions/statement/rcog-statement-later-maternal-age Scholfield, G. (1994) Youngest Mothers, Aldershot: Avebury Selman, P. and C . Glendinning (1994) ‘Teenage Pregnancy and Social Policy’, Youth and Policy, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 39-58 49 Sevon, Eija (2005) ‘Timing Motherhood: Experiencing and narrating the choice to become a mother’, Feminism and Psychology, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 423-443 Shaw, Rachel L. and David C. Giles (2009) ‘Motherhood on Ice: A Media Framing Analysis of Older Mothers in the UK news’, Psychology and Health, Volume 24, No. 2, pp. 221-236 Tabberer S. et al (2000) Teenage pregnancy and choice: abortion or motherhood: influences on the decision, York: York Publishing Services for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Whitman L. et al (2001) Interwoven Lives: Adolescent mothers and their children, PLACE: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Wilson, Helen and Huntington, Annette (2005) ‘Deviant (M)others: The Construction of Teenage Motherhood in Contemporary Discourse’, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 59-76 Websites Bubbalicious: The Place for Young Parents: http://www.bubbalicious.co.uk/?gclid=CLLKqtOH5LkCFcbLtAod1SkAcw Mothers Over 40: http://www.mothersover40.com/home.html Nurture: Stories of Midlife Mothers: http://www.midlifemothers.org/ Teenage Pregnancy Support: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/teenager-pregnant.aspx#close Thrive Teen Parenting Centre: http://www.tindall.org.nz/thrive-teen-parenting-centre-empowering-young-parents-to-buildthriving-families/ 50 Week 13 Who Manages Fertility? The Politics of Contraception Maria Do Mar Pereira Contraception has a long history that illustrates women's desire and struggle to achieve control over their reproduction in relation to laws, regulations and instruction by different religions, states and medical professionals. Moreover, decisions over fertility emerge from and are intertwined with the wider social context, including marriage customs, economic factors, cultural prescriptions, and, of course, gender relations. Contraceptive technologies are not ‘neutral’; they are designed, promoted and controlled within the social context, and thus re/produce wider social inequalities and conventions. This week we will consider issues that illustrate the politics of contraception. First, the centrality of ideas about which women are 'fit' to be mothers to the promotion of contraception will be looked at, including eugenic agendas. Second, control of access to contraception will be considered, including the surveillance of women by health professionals. Third, health implications for women using contraception will be examined, including the implication of pharmaceutical companies in the power relationships of contraception. Finally we will ask why the development of contraception has focussed on women users; could there be a male pill? Seminar Questions Is contraception good for women’s health? What difference does ‘race’ make to women’s experiences of contraception? What difference does intellectual disability make to women’s experiences of contraception? How do discourses of sexuality inform policy making on contraception? Could there / should there be a male pill? Core Reading Barrett, G. and R. Harper (2000) ‘Health Professionals’ Attitudes to the Deregulation of Emergency Contraception (Or the Problem of Female Sexuality)’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 197-216 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1745238~S1 Oudshoorn, Nelly E. J. (2000) ‘Imagined Men: Representations of Masculinities in Discourse of Male Contraceptive Technology’, in A. Saetnan, N. Oudshoorn and M. Kirejczyk (Eds) Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement in Reproductive Medicine, Ohio: Ohio University Press, pp. 123145 Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Roberts, Dorothy (1999) Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, New York: Vintage (ch. 3 ‘From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control’, pp. 105-149) Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Tilly, Liz, Jan Walmsley, Sarah Earle and Dorothy Atkinson (2012) ‘International Perspectives on the Sterilization of Women with Intellectual Disabilities’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 23-36 No longer available as an E-book (see alternative below): http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2655848 51 Tilley, Elizabeth, Jan Walmsley, Sarah Earle and Dorothy Atkinson (2012) '"The Silence is Roaring": Sterilization, reproductive rights and women with intellectual disabilities', Disability & Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 413-426 Additional Reading Agadjanian, Victor (2002) ‘Men’s Talk about “Women’s Matters”: Gender, Communication, and Contraception in Urban Mozambique’, Gender & Society, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 194-215 Anderson, P. and R. Kitchen (2000) ‘Disability, space and sexuality: access to family planning services’, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 1163-1173 Bashford, Alison and Phillippa Levine (Eds) (2010) The Oxford Handbook of Eugenics, New York: Oxford University Press Foster, P. (1995) Women and the Health Care Industry: An Unhealthy Relationship, Buckingham: Open University Press (ch. 1 ‘Contraception and Abortion’) Gordon, L. (1990) Women's Body, Women's Rights: Birth Control in America, London: Penguin Books Grant, N. J. (1992) The Selling of Contraception: The Dalkon Shield Case, Sexuality and Women's Autonomy, Columbus: Ohio State University Press Hawkes, G. (1995) 'Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Young Women and Family Planning', Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 257-273 Holland, J., C. Ramazanoglu, S. Scott, S. Sharpe and R. Thomson (1990) ‘Don't Die of Ignorance’ I Nearly Died of Embarrassment: Condoms in Context, London: The Tufnell Press. (Also in Jackson and Scott (1996) Feminism and Sexuality, Edinburgh: EUP) Jackson, M. (1994) The Real Facts of Life: Feminism and the Politics of Sexuality c1850-1940, London: Taylor and Francis (especially chapter on Birth Control Movement) Jackson, Emily (2001) Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, Oxford, Portland Oregan: Hart Publishing (ch. 2 ‘Birth Control’) Jütte, Robert (2007) Contraception: A history, translated by Vicky Russell, Cambridge: Polity Kammen, J. van and N. Oudshoorn (2002) ‘Gender and Risk Assessment in Contraceptive Technologies’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 436-461 Kohn, T. and R. McKechnie (Eds) (1999) Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices, Oxford: Berg (Especially chapter on Depo-Provera) Kuo, L. (1998) ‘Secondary Discrimination as a Standard for Feminist Social Policy: Norplant and Probation, A Case Study’, Signs Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 907-944 52 Lowe, Pam (2005) ‘Embodied Expertise: Women’s Perceptions of the Contraception Consultation’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 361-378 Lowe, Pam (2005) ‘Contraception and Heterosex: An Intimate Relationship’, Sexualities, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 75-92 Lowe P., R. Sidhu R & F. Griffiths (2007) ‘Barriers faced by Pakistani women seeking contraception’, Diversity in Health and Social Care, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 69-76 McLaren, A. (1990) A History of Contraception, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Neubeck, Kenneth and Noel Cazenave (2001) Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor, New York: Routledge Norsworthy, Kathryn L., Margaret A. McLaren and Laura D. Waterfield (2012) ‘Women’s Power in Relationships: A Matter of Social Justice’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 57-76 Oudshoorn, Nelly E. J. (2003) The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making, Durham; London: Duke University Press Peel, R. (Ed.) (1997) Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the English Birth Control Movement, London: The Galton Institute Pollock, S. (1984) ‘Refusing to take women seriously: “Side effects” and the Politics of Contraception’, in R. Arditti et al (Eds) Test-tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? Boston: Pandora Pollock, Scarlet (1985) ‘Sex and the Contraceptive Act’, in Hilary Homans (Ed.) The Sexual Politics of Reproduction, Aldershot: Gower Riddle, John M. (1992) Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Roberts, Dorothy (1999) Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty New York: Vintage (Ch. 4 ‘Making Reproduction a Crime’) Rose, June (1993) Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution, London, Boston: Faber & Faber Russell, Andrew, Sobo, Elisa and Thompson, Mary (Eds) (2000) Contraception across cultures: technologies, choices, constraints, Oxford: Berg Russo, Felipe and Julia R. Seinberg (2012) ‘Contraception and Abortion: Critical Tools for Achieving Reproductive Justice’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 145-172 Seal, Vivien (1990) Whose Choice? Working Class Women and the Control of Fertility, London: Fortress (ch. 2 ‘The Struggle for Birth Control’) 53 Stevens, Dionne P., Vrushali Patil and Tami L. Thomas (2012) ‘STI Prevention and Control for Women: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Understanding Global Women’s Experiences’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 117144 Takeshita, Chikako (2010) ‘The IUD in Me: On Embodying Feminist Technoscience Studies’, Science as Culture, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 37-60 Thomas, Hilary (1985) ‘The Medical Construction of the Contraceptive Career’, in Hilary Homans (Ed.) The Sexual Politics of Reproduction, Aldershot: Gower Tilly, Liz, Jan Walmsley, Sarah Earle and Dorothy Atkinson (2012) ‘International Perspectives on the Sterilization of Women with Intellectual Disabilities’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 23-36 Watkins, E. S. (1998) On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives 1950-1970, Baltimore, London: John Hopkins University Press Waxman-Fiduccia B. (1994) ‘Up Against Eugenics: Disabled Women's Challenge to Receive Reproductive Health Services’, Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 185-171 Welner, S. (1999) ‘Contraceptive Choices for Women with Disabilities’, Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 209-214 Wong, A. (2000) ‘The Work of Disabled Women Seeking Reproductive Health Care’, Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 301-306 Wynn, L.L. and James Trussell (2006) ‘The Social Life of Emergency Contraception in the United States’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 297-320 Websites BBC Medical Ethics and Contraception: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/contraception/ethics_contraception_1.shtml Brook: http://www.brook.org.uk/ International Planned Parenthood Federation: http://www.ippf.org/ Family Planning Association: http://www.fpa.org.uk/help-and-advice/contraception-help Marie Stopes International: http://www.mariestopes.org.uk/ NHS Choices: Contraception: method-suits-me.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/contraception-guide/Pages/which- 54 Week 14 Whose body is it anyway? The politics of abortion Maria Do Mar Pereira The phrase ‘a woman’s right to choose’ has been used as a rallying cry by feminists in the pursuit of safe, legal abortion – ideally on demand. However, by using the language of ‘rights’, it can be argued, feminists have provided opponents of abortion with a valuable weapon to use against them. Contestation around abortion is increasingly framed as a battle between women’s rights, foetal rights and fathers’ rights, particularly since the advent of new reproductive technologies including, most significantly, ultrasound. The session will outline the historical context of feminist demands for safe, legal abortion, detailing the various interest groups that feel entitled to be considered in debates over abortion. It will consider the shifts in the debate around the concept of ‘foetal rights’ instigated by the advent of the ‘new reproductive technologies’, as well as considering the ‘eugenic’ dimension of selective abortion of ‘impaired’ foetuses, where feminist principles are in tension with the disability movement. Seminar Questions What arguments have feminists used to win or maintain access to abortion? What arguments have anti-choice groups used to deny or restrict access to abortion? In what ways have the new reproductive technologies changed the terms of the abortion debate? What are the key issues for disability rights campaigners with regards to the abortion time limit in the UK? Core Reading and Viewing American Portrait Films (1984), The Silent Scream. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipPDUsojng (WARNING: this video contains graphic images of abortion; if you are worried these might disturb you, do not watch it) Fadiman, D. (director) (2004) Motherhood by Choice, Not by Chance. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/motherhood_by_choice_fadiman_2004 Rose, M. and Hatfield, M. R. (2007) ‘Republican motherhood redux?: women as contingent citizens in 21st century America’, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 5-30 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2286771~S1 Saxton, M, (2006) ‘Disability Rights and Selective Abortion’ in L.J. Davis (Ed.) The Disability Studies Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 105-116 Available as an E-book: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2221961~S1 Smyth, L. (2002) ‘Feminism and abortion politics: choice, rights and reproductive freedom’, Women’s Studies International Forum Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 335-345 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1746049~S1 55 Additional Reading Bennett, B. (2004) Abortion, Dartmouth, Aldershot; Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Berer, M. (1988) ‘Whatever happened to a woman’s right to choose?’, Feminist Review No. 29, pp. 24-37 Browner, C. H. (2000) ‘Situating women’s reproductive activities’, American Anthropologist Vol. 102, No. 4, pp.773-778 Chavkin, W. (1992) ‘Women and foetus: the social construction of conflict’, in C. Feinman (Ed.) The Criminalisation of a Woman’s Body, New York; London: Haworth Press, pp. 193-202 Daniels, C. (1993) At Women’s Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights, London: Harvard University Press Davis-Floyd, R. and Dumit, J. (1998) Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno Tots, London: Routledge Francome, C. (2004) Abortion in the USA and the UK, Aldershot: Ashgate Franklin, S. et al (1991) Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies, London: Harper Collins (see chapters from the section entitled ‘In the wake of the Alton Bill’) Fried, M. G. (Ed.) (1990) From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement, Boston: South End Press (especially chapter by A. Davis ‘Racism, birth control and reproductive rights’) Fried, M. (2006) ‘Politics of abortion’, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 229245 Ginsburg, F. and Rapp, R. (1995) Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, London; Los Angeles: University of California Press Githens, M. and McBride Stetson, D. (Eds) (1996) Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross Cultural Perspective, London: Routledge Heumann, S. G. (2007) ‘Abortion and politics in Nicaragua: the women’s movement in the debate on the Abortion Law reform 1999-2002’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 217-231 Himmelweit, S. (1988) ‘More than “a woman’s right to choose”?’, Feminist Review, No. 29, pp. 3856 Hubbard, R. (2006) ‘Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World?’, in L.J. Davis (Ed.) The Disability Studies Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 93-104 Hussain, S. (2003) ‘Gender and reproductive behaviour: the role of men’, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 45-76 56 Jackson, E. (2001) Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, Oxford: Hart Publishing (ch.3 Abortion) Kallianes, V. and Rubenfeld, P. (1997) ‘Disabled women and reproductive rights’, Disability and Society, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.203-221 Kramer, A-M. (2005) ‘Gender, nation and the abortion debate in the Polish media’ in V. Tolz and S. Booth (Eds) Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe, Manchester: Manchester University Press Kuhse, Helga and Peter Singer (Eds) (2012) A Companion to Bioethics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Part IV – Before Birth: Issues involving embryos and fetuses Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia (2011) ‘Uneasy Subjects: Disability, feminism and abortion’, in Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio (Eds) Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press MacPherson, Y. (2007) ‘Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India’, Gender in Development, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 413-423 Mason, C. (2000) ‘Cracked babies and the partial birth of a nation: millennialism and fetal citizenship’, Cultural Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 35-60 Oaks, L. (2000) ‘Smoke-filled wombs and fragile foetuses: the social politics of fetal representation’, Sign, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 63-108 Oaks, L. (2002) ‘Abortion is part of the Irish experience, it is part of what we are: the transformation of public discourses on Irish abortion policy’, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 315-333 Overall, Christine (2012) Why Have Children: The ethical debate, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, Ch. 3 (When Prospective Parents Disagree) Palmer, J. (2000) ‘Seeing is knowing’, Feminist Theory Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.173-189 Petchesky, R. (1987) ‘Foetal images: the power of visual culture in the politics of reproduction’, in M. Stanworth (Ed.) Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine, Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 57-80 Randall, V. (1992) ‘Great Britain and dilemmas for feminist strategy in the 1980s: the case of abortion and reproductive rights’, in J. M. Bystydzienski (Ed.) Women Transforming Politics: Worldwide Strategies for Empowerment, Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 80-94 Rabindranathan, S. (2003) ‘Women’s decision to undergo abortion’, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 457-473 Rapp, R. (2000) Testing Women, Testing the Foetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, London: Routledge 57 Riddle, John M. (1992) Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Roberts, Julie (2012) The Visualised Foetus: a Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery, Farnham: Ashgate (Ch. 4 ‘The Ultimate Image in the Abortion Debate’) Ruhl, P. L. (2002) ‘Disarticulating liberal subjectivities: abortion and fetal protection’, Feminist Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 37-60 Russo, Felipe and Julia R. Seinberg (2012) ‘Contraception and Abortion: Critical Tools for Achieving Reproductive Justice’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 145-172 Schrage, L. (2002) ‘From reproductive rights to reproductive Barbie: post-porn modernism and abortion’, Feminist Studies Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 61-93 Seal, V. (1990) Whose Choice? Working Class Women and the Control of Fertility, London: Fortress (chapter 3: Abortion – the Campaign for the Right to Choose) Sedgh, G. et al (2007) ‘Legal abortion worldwide: incidence and recent trends’, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 216-225 Sharp, K. and Earle, S. (2002) ‘Feminism, abortion and disability: irreconcilable differences?’, Disability and Society, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 137-145 Smyth, L. (2005) Abortion and Nation: the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland, Aldershot: Ashgate Stetson, D.M. (1996) ‘Feminist perspectives on abortion and reproductive technologies’, in M. Githens and D. McBride Stetson (Eds) Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective, London: Routledge Stormer, N. (2000) ‘Prenatal space’, Signs, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 109-144 Woolford, J. and Woolford, A. (2007) ‘Perspectives: abortion and genocide: the unbridgeable gap’, Social Politics Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 126-153 Websites Abortion Rights: http://www.abortionrights.org.uk (website of merged National Abortion Campaign and Abortion Law Reform Association) National Abortion Federation (US): http://www.prochoice.org/ National Right to Life (US): http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/help.html ProLife: http://prolife.org.uk/ (one of UK’s leading ‘pro-life’ campaigns) 58 Week 15 Reproductive Disruptions: Infertility Caroline Wright So far, we have explored what might be considered as ‘normative’ human reproduction, which assumes parenthood to be a normative, taken-for-granted trajectory in the life-course of (most) adults, particularly for women. But in this lecture we contemplate infertility as a disruption to that supposed trajectory. In many cases, reproduction goes awry and reproductive trajectories may be disrupted through illness, miscarriage, still-birth. What becomes clear is that the meanings of infertility are culturally shaped, as are responses to infertility, and that infertility bears particularly heavily on women. In this lecture, we explore the effects of infertility on women and men within global contexts. Seminar Questions How is infertility gendered? How is infertility viewed in nation-states where fertility regulation is part of national political discourse (anti-natalist states)? How is infertility viewed in nation-states where large families are considered the norm (pro-natalist states)? Should access to NRTs designed to address infertility be considered a basic health right or priority in areas of high or over population? To what extent does conflict exist between medical and social models of infertility? Core Reading Bharadwaj, A. (2003) ‘Why adoption is not an option in India: the visibility of infertility, the secrecy of donor insemination, and other cultural complexities’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 1867-1880 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1745209~S1 Letherby, Gayle (2012) ‘“Infertility” and “Involuntary Childlessness”: Losses, Ambivalences and Resolutions’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 9-22 Available as an E-book: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2655848 Upton, R. (2001) ‘“Infertility Makes You Invisible”: Gender, Health and the Negotiation of Fertility in Northern Botswana’, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 349-452 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1742522~S1 van Balen, F. and M. Inhorn (2002) ‘Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences’, in M. Inhorn and F. van Balen (Eds) Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies, London: Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, pp. 3-17 Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 59 Additional Reading Becker, G. and R. D. Nachtingall (1992) ‘Eager for Medicalisation: The social production of infertility as a disease’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 456-471 Brenborg, Ann Davidsson (2012) ‘The Memorialization of Stillbirth in the Internet Age’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 155-166 Britt, E. C. (2001) Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law and the Double Binds of Infertility, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press Ceballo, R. (1999) ‘“The only black woman walking the face of the earth who cannot have a baby”: two women’s stories’, In M. Romero and A.J. Stewart (Eds) Women’s Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity, London: Routledge, pp. 3-19 Culley, L., N. Hudson and F. van Rooij (2009) Marginalised Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies, Earthscan: London Dodoo, Nii-Amoo F. and A.E. Frost (2008) ‘Gender in African population research: the fertility/ reproductive health example’, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 34, pp. 431-452 Dyer, Karen, Khadija Mitu and Cecilia Vindola-Padros (2012) ‘The Social Shaping of Fertility Loss Due to Cancer Treatment: A Comparative Perspective’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 37-50 Earle, S. and G. Letherby (2007) ‘Conceiving time? Women who do or do not conceive’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 233-250 Greil, A. L. (1991) Not yet Pregnant: Infertile Couples in Contemporary America, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Handwerker, L. (1995) ‘“The Hen that Can’t Lay An Egg”: Conceptions of Female Infertility in Modern China’, in J. Urla and J. Terry (Eds) Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture, pp. 358-387 Hellum, A. and Stewart, J. (1999) Women’s Human Rights and Legal Pluralism in Africa: Mixed Norms and Identities in Infertility Management in Zimbabwe, Oslo: Mond Books Inhorn, M. (1994) Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press Inhorn, M. and van Balen, F. (Eds) (2002) Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies, London: Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press Inhorn, M. C. (2003) Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilisation in Egypt, London: Routledge 60 Inhorn, M. C. (2003) ‘Global infertility and the globalisation of new reproductive technologies: illustrations from Egypt’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 1837-1851 Inhorn, M.C. (2008) ‘Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of new reproductive technologies: male infertility and stigma in Egypt and Lebanon’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 162-182 Komarory, Carol (2012) ‘Managing Emotions at the Time of Stillbirth and Neonatal Death’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 193-204 Keeble, S. (1994) Infertility, Feminism and the New Technologies, London: Fabian Society Layne, L. (1999) ‘“True gifts from God”: motherhood, sacrifice and enrichment in the case of pregnancy loss’, in L. Layne (Ed.) Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in Consumer Culture, New York: New York University Press Layne, L. (2000) ‘Baby things as fetishes? Memorial goods, simulacra and the “realness” problem of pregnancy loss’, in H. Ragone and F.W. Twine (Eds) Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism, London: Routledge Layne, L. (2003) Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America, London: Routledge Layne, Linda (2012) ‘“Troubling the Normal”: “Angel Babies” and the Canny/Uncanny Nexus’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 129-142 Martin, E. (1996) ‘The egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles’, in E.F. Keller and H.E. Longina (Eds) Feminism and Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 103-120 Millar, I. and Paulson-Ellis, C. (2009) Exploring Infertility Issues in Adoption, London: British Association for Adoption and Fostering Moore, Lisa Jean (2007) Sperm Counts: Overcome by man’s most precious fluid, New York: New York University Press, Ch. 2 (‘Lashing their tails: science discovers sperm’) ORC Macro and the WHO (2004) Infecundity, Infertility, and Childlessness in Developing Countries. Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Comparative Reports No. 9 Available Online: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publicatons/infertility/DHS_9/en/print.html Oudshoorn, N. (2003) The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making, Durham; London: Duke University Press Peel, Elizabeth and Ruth Cain (2012) ‘“Silent” Miscarriage and Deafening Heteronormativity: A British Experiential and Critical Feminist Account’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 79-92 61 Pfeffer, N. (1993) The Stork and the Syringe: a Political History of Reproductive Medicine, Cambridge: Polity Press Riesman, C. (2002) ‘Positioning gender identity in narratives of infertility: south Indian women’s lives in context’, in M. Inhorn and F. van Balen (Eds) Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies, London; Berkeley Calif.: University of California Press Rubin, Lisa R. and Aliza Philips (2012) ‘Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Matters of Reproductive Justice’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 173-200 Sandelowski, M. and de Laceuy, S. (2002) ‘The uses of a “disease”: infertility as rhetorical vehicle’, In M. Inhorn and F. van Balen (Eds) Infertility Around the Globe: New thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies, London; Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, pp. 33-51 Thompson, C. M. (2002) ‘Fertile ground: feminists theorize infertility’, in M. Inhorn and F. van Balen (Eds) Infertility Around the Globe: New thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies, London; Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press Thompson, Susannah (2012) ‘“As If She Never Existed”: Changing Understandings of Perinatal Loss in Australia in the Twentieth and Early Twenty First Centuries’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 167-178 Throsby, K. (2004) When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality, Houndmills: Palgrave Webb, R. E. and Daniluk, J. C. (1999) ‘The end of the line: infertile men’s experiences of being unable to produce a child’, Men and Masculinities, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 6-25 Woodruff, T. K. et al (Eds) (2010) Oncofertility: Ethical, Legal, Social and Medical Perspectives, New York: Springer Woodthorpe, Kate (2012) ‘Baby Gardens: A Privilege or a Predicament’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 143-154 Zegers-Hochschild, F., Adamson, G. D., de Mouzon, J., Ishihara, O., Mounsoure, R., Nygren, K., Sullivan, E. and Venderpoel, S. (2009) ‘International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology (ICMART) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) revised glossary of ART terminology’, Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 92, No. 5, pp. 1520-1524 62 Websites Infertility Network UK: http://www.infertilitynetworkuk.com/ Miscarriage Association: http://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/ More to Life: Support for the Involuntary Childless: http://www.infertilitynetworkuk.com/more_to_life?gclid=CP6Z0KSg5LkCFUXKtAod6TMAtQ Tommys: Miscarriage: http://www.tommys.org/miscarriage?gclid=CImvnuOi5LkCFUXKtAod6TMAtQ WHO Infertility: http://www.who.int/topics/infertility/en/ Week 16 Reading Week No lecture or seminars. This is a chance to finalize your project presentation ready for next week. Please note that this is a department wide reading week, unless a particular module convenor has advised you otherwise. Week 17 Project Presentation Week The lecture slot and your seminar slot this week will be dedicated to the presentation of group projects, hard copies of which should be handed in to your seminar tutor at the start of the seminar (see formative work above). 63 Week 18 IVF and Gamete Donation Caroline Wright Since the birth of the first IVF baby in 1978, Louise Brown, assisted conception techniques have become widespread. Moreover, stories of ‘test-tube’ babies are a common feature in the media, either as the latest ‘miracle birth’ or in terms of moral outrage against another ‘undesirable’ mother. Although accounts of IVF are commonplace, they rarely address some of the most important implications that these technologies have for women, including the impact on women's bodies and psyches. We will consider these, and also look at examples of IVF internationally to assess the importance of context in terms of how IVF is gendered. Since IVF may also rely on donated gametes, eggs and/or sperm, we will also consider the nature of the exchange, including recently agreed financial incentives to donate in the UK, and the challenges posed to the normative categories of parenthood and kinship. Seminar Questions Do we / should we have the right to reproduce? What have feminists got to fear from IVF and what do women’s owns accounts of IVF contribute to the debate? How much does context matter when considering gender and IVF? Where do men figure in IVF? How does gamete donation challenge normative categories of parenthood and kinship? How is gamete donation gendered? Should people be paid for the donation of gametes? Core Reading Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (2012) ‘Implications of the Outcomes of the Donation Review’, Chair’s letter following public consultation ‘Donating Sperm and Eggs: Have your say’, Available online: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/6966.html Hargreaves, K. (2006) ‘Constructing families and kinship through donor insemination’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 261-283 Available as an E-journal article: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1745238 Inhorn, M. C. (2007) ‘Masturbation, semen collection and men’s IVF experiences: anxieties in the Muslim world’, Body & Society, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 37-53 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1737734~S1 Throsby, K. (2004) When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality, Houndmills: Palgrave (Chapter 6: ‘Taking Responsibility’) Available as an E-book: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2341631~S1 Additional Reading Almeling, R. (2006) ‘“Why do you want to be a donor?”: gender and the production of altruism in egg and sperm donation’, New Genetics and Society, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 143-157 64 Almeling, R. (2007) ‘Selling genes, selling gender: egg agencies, sperm banks and the medical market in genetic material’, American Sociological Review, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 319-340 Arditti, R. et al (1989) Test Tube Women, London: Pandora (especially chapter by M. Saxton ‘Born and Unborn: The Implications of Reproductive Technologies for people with Disabilities’) Birke, L., S. Himmelweit and G. Vines (1990) Tomorrow's Child, London: Virago Cahn, Naomi R. (2013) The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families, New York: New York University Press Cellio, Jen (2011) ‘“Healthy, Accomplished and Attractive”: Visual representations of “fitness” in egg donors’, in Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio (Eds) Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press Corea, Gena (1985) The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs, London: The Women’s Press Culley, L., Hudson, N. and van Rooji, F. (2009) Marginalized Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies, London; Sterling VA.: Earthscan Daniels, K.R., Lewis, G.M. and Gillett, W. (1995) ‘Telling donor insemination offspring about their conception: the nature of couples’ decision-making’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 1213-1220 Denny, E. (1994) ‘Liberation or Oppression?: Radical Feminism and in vitro fertilization’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 62-80 Edwards, J. et al (Eds) (1993) Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception, London: Routledge Farquhar, D. (1996) The Other Machine, London: Routledge Franklin, S. (1993) ‘Making Representations: the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act’, in J. Edwards, S. Franklin, E. Hirsch, F. Price, & M. Strathern (Eds) Technologies of Procreation: kinship in the age of assisted conception, London: Routledge, pp. 127170 Franklin, S. (1997) Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception, London: Routledge Franklin, S. and H. Ragone (1998) Reproducing Reproduction, Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania Press Grace, V.M., Daniels, K.R. and Gillett, W. (2007) ‘The donor, the father, and the imaginary constitution of the family: parents’ constructions in the case of donor insemination’, Social Science and Medicine Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 301-314 Handwerker, L. (1995) ‘The Social and Ethical Implications of In-vitro Fertilization in Contemporary China’, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 355-363 65 Handwerker, L. (2002) ‘The politics of making modern babies in China: reproductive technologies and the “new” eugenics’, in M. Inhorn and F. van Balen (Eds) Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies, London; Berkeley Calif.: University of California Press Hanson, F.A. (2001) ‘Donor insemination: Eugenic and feminist implications’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 287- 311 Hartouni, V. (1997) Cultural Conceptions, Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press HFEA (1998) ‘Paid egg sharing to be regulated, not banned’, Press release, 10 December, Available online: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/986.html HFEA (2000) ‘Guidance for Egg Sharing Arrangements’, 28 September, Available online: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/499.html Inhorn, M. (2003) Global Nature, Global Science: Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilisation in Egypt, New York: Routledge Kirkman, M. (2003) ‘Egg and embryo donation and the meaning of motherhood’, Women and Health, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 1-18 Klein, R. D. (1987) ‘What’s “new” about the “new” reproductive technologies?’, in Gena Corea et al (Eds) Man-Made Women: How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women Bloomington: Indiana University Press Meerabeau, L. (1991) ‘Husbands’ participation in fertility treatment: they also serve who only stand and wait’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 396-410 Moore, Lisa Jean (2007) Sperm Counts: Overcome by man’s most precious fluid, New York: New York University Press, Ch. 5 (‘The family jewels: sperm banks and the crisis of fatherhood’) Nahman, M. (2006) ‘Materializing Israeliness: difference and mixture in transnational ova donation’, Science as Culture, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 199-213 Nahman, M (2008) ‘Romanian egg sellers, “dignity” and feminist alliances in transnational ova exchanges’, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 133-135 Nordqvist, Petra (2010) ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Family Resemblances in Lesbian Donor Conception’, Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 1128-1144 Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2010) Give and take? Human bodies in medicine and research. Consultation Paper, April Available online: http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/sites/default/files/files/Human%20bodies%20in%20medicine%20a nd%20research%20consultation%20paper(1).pdf Oakley, A. (1993) Essays on Women, Health & Medicine, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (Ch. 13 ‘Technologies of Procreation: Hazards for Women and the Social Order’) 66 Pfeffer, N. (1993) The Stork and the Syringe, Cambridge: Polity Press Phillips, A. (2011) ‘It’s my body and I’ll do what I like with it: Bodies as Objects and Property’, Political Theory, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 724-748 Phillips, A. (2013) Our Bodies, Whose Property?, Princeton: Princeton University Press, (Ch. 4 ‘Spare Parts and Desperate Needs’) Roberts, Dorothy (1999) Killing the Black Body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty, New York: Vintage (Ch. 6 ‘Race and the New Reproduction’) Roberts, Elizabeth F.S. (2012) God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes, Berkeley: University of California Press Rubin, Lisa R. and Aliza Philips (2012) ‘Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Matters of Reproductive Justice’, in Joan C. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, pp. 173-200 Saetnan, A.R., Oudshoorn, N. et al (Eds) (2000) Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine, Columbus: Ohio State University Press Shaw, R (2008) ‘Rethinking reproductive gifts as body projects’, Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1128 Spallone, Patricia and Deborah Lynn Steinberg (Eds) (1987) Made to Order: The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress, Oxford: Pergamon Press Spallone, P. (1989) Beyond Conception, Basingstoke: Macmillan Stacey. M. (1992) Changing Human Reproduction, London: Sage Stanworth, M. (1987) Reproductive Technologies, Cambridge: Polity Press (especially chapters by Michelle Stanworth and Janet Gallagher) Steinberg, D. (1997) Bodies in Glass: Genetics, Eugenics and Embryo Ethics, Manchester: Manchester University Press (especially Ch. 1 ‘Writing Recombinant bodies: the professional genea/logics of IVF’) Throsby, K. and Gill, R. (2004) ‘“It’s different for men”: masculinity and IVF’, Men and Masculinities, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 330-348 Throsby, K. (2006) ‘The unaltered body?: Rethinking the body when IVF fails’, Science Studies Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 77-97 67 Websites FINNRAGE: http://www.finrrage.org/ Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Website: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/Home HFEA pages about reviews and public consultations on donation of sperm, eggs and embryos: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/513.html HFEA pages about the National Donation Strategy, to encourage egg and sperm donation: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/7138.html Infertility Network: UK Clinical Commissioning Groups and IVF Funding: http://www.infertilitynetworkuk.com/niac_2/ccg_details National Gamete Donation Trust: http://www.ngdt.co.uk/ NICE 2013 Guideline on Fertility: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG156 One At a Time: Better Outcomes From Fertility Treatment: http://www.oneatatime.org.uk/ ‘Right to Life’ campaign against egg donation: www.handsoffourovaries.com 68 Week 19 Genetics – our reproductive futures Caroline Wright This week we will consider the emerging genetic technologies, focusing first on technologies of genetic selection and the so-called ‘designer babies’ and ‘saviour siblings’, and then on stem cell research and therapeutic cloning technologies – an area of scientific research that is dependent on a supply of eggs and embryos from fertility treatment. We will explore the ways in which the gendered body is constructed in the public and scientific debates on reproductive genetics, and the role of women (and their body parts) in the genetic revolution. We will also consider critiques of new genetic technologies from critical disability scholars and activists. Finally we will examine the latest research and consultation on mitochondria replacement (whereby any children born following mitochrondria replacement will have inherited nuclear DNA from their parents and mitochrondrial DNA from a donor, thus, arguably, three genetic parents). Seminar Questions What do you understand by the term ‘designer babies’? Why does the term incite such strong controversy and is the controversy justified? What is the case for and against ‘saviour siblings’? What can feminism and critical disability scholars contribute to the debates around the new reproductive and genetic technologies? Considering the HFEA consultation, what social and ethical issues are raised by the potential of mitochondrial replacement, for potential donors, recipients and wider society? Core Reading Boardman, F. (2011) ‘Negotiating Discourses of Maternal Responsibility, Disability and Reprogenetics’, in C. Lewiecki-Wilson and J. Cellio (Eds) Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge, New York: Syracuse University Press, pp. 34 – 49 Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (2013) Mitochondria Replacement Consultations: Advice to Government, See pp. 1-31 [this is a very long document!] Available online: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/docs/HFEA_Authority_meeting_March_2013_-_Mitchondria_report.pdf Roberts, C. and Throsby, K. (2008) ‘Paid to share: IVF patients, eggs and stem cell research’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 159-169 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1745209~S1 Sui, S. and M. Sleeboom-Faulkner (2010) ‘Choosing offspring: Prenatal genetic testing for thallassaemia and the production of a “saviour sibling” in China’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 167-175 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1739068~S1 69 Additional Reading Andrews, L. B. (1999) The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology, New York: Henry Holt and Company Atkin, K. (2003) ‘Ethnicity and the politics of the new genetics: principles and engagement’, Ethnicity and Health, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 91-109 Chadwick, R. and M. Levitt (2006) ‘Genetic Technology: A Threat to Deafness’, in H. Kuhse and P. Singer (Eds) Bioethics: An Anthology (2nd edition), Malden, MA, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell, pp. 137-144 Ehrich, K., Williams, C. and Farsides, B. (2008) ‘The embryo as moral work object: PGD/IVF staff views and experiences’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 772-787 Ettore, E. (2000) ‘Reproductive genetics, gender and the body: “please doctor, may I have a normal baby”’, Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 402-420 Ettore, E. (2002) Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body, London: Routledge Franklin, S. (2001) ‘Culturing biology: cell lines for the second millennium’, Health, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 335-354 Franklin, S. and Roberts, C. (2006) Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Oxford: Princeton University Press Fukuyama, F. (2003) Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the biotechnology revolution London, Profile Books Gosden, R. (1999) Designer Babies: the Brave New World of Reproductive Technology, London: Phoenix Handwerker, L. (2003) ‘New Genetic Technologies and their Impact on Women: A feminist perspective’, Gender and Development, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 114-125 Kerr, A. and Shakespeare, T. (2002) Genetic Politics: from Eugenics to Genome, Cheltenham: New Clarion Press Kuhse, Helga and Peter Singer (Eds) (2012) A Companion to Bioethics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Part VI – New Genetics McKibben, B. (2003) Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature, London: Bloomsbury Overboe, J. (2007) ‘Disability and Genetics: Affirming the Bare Life (the State of Exception)’, Canadian Review of Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 219-235 Parens E. and Asch, A. (2000) Prenatal testing and disability rights, Washington, DC: Georgetown. University Press 70 Parry, S. (2003) ‘The politics of cloning: mapping the rhetorical convergence of embryos and stem cells in parliamentary debates’, New Genetics and Society, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 145-168 Parry, S. (2005) ‘(Re)constructing embryos in stem cell research: exploring the meaning of embryos for people involved in fertility treatments’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 23492359 Peterson, A. (2001) ‘Biofantasies: genetics and medicine in the new print media’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 1255-68 Purdy, L. (2006) ‘Genetics and reproductive risk: can having children be immoral?’, in H. Kuhse and P. Singer (Eds) Bioethics: An Anthology (2nd edition), Malden, MA, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell, pp. 113-121 Rapp, R., Heath, D. and Taussig, K-S. (2001) ‘Genealogical dis-ease: where hereditary abnormality, biomedical explanation, and family responsibility meet’, in S. Franklin and S. McKinnon (Eds) Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 384-409 Rapp, R. (2003) ‘Cell life and death, child life and death: genomic horizons, genetics diseases, family stories’, in S. Franklin and M. Lock (Eds) Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Life Sciences, Oxford: James Currey Roberts, Dorothy (2009) ‘Race, Gender and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?’, Signs, Vol, 34, No. 4, pp. 783-804 Rock, P.J. (1996) ‘Eugenics and Euthanasia: A cause for concern for disabled people, particularly disabled women’, Disability & Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 121-127 Rothblatt, M. (1997) Unzipped Genes: Taking Charge of Baby-Making in the New Millennium, Philadelphia: Temple University Press Shakespeare, T. (1999) ‘“Losing the plot”? Medical and activist discourses of contemporary genetics and disability’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 669-688 Silver, L. M. (1998) Remaking Eden: Cloning, Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humankind, London: Phoenix Steinberg, D. L. (1997) ‘A most selective practice: the eugenic logics of IVF’, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 33-48 Svendsen, M.N. and Koch, L. (2008) ‘Unpacking the “spare embryo”: facilitating stem cell research in a moral landscape’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 92-110 Tutton, R. (2002) ‘The gift relationship in genetics research’, Science as Culture, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 523-542 Turney, J. (1998) Frankenstein’s Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, New Haven: Yale University Press 71 Warnock, Mary and Peter Braude (2012) ‘Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos’, in Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer (Eds) A Companion to Bioethics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Williams, C., Kitzinger, J., & Henderson, L. (2003) ‘Envisaging the embryo in stem cell research: rhetorical strategies and media reporting of the ethical debates’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 793-814 Websites Campaign to End Sex Selection: http://www.cwpe.org/initiatives/sexselection Council for Responsible Genetics: http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/Help/About.aspx FINNRAGE: http://www.finrrage.org/ HFEA web-pages on Embryo Research in the UK: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/158.html HFEA web-pages on Genetic Testing, including Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Preimplantation tissue typing: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/172.html Human Genetics Alert: http://www.hgalert.org/topics/hge/threat.htm Wellcome Trust: The Ethics of Stem Cells: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlightissues/Human-Fertilisation-and-Embryology-Act/Stem-cell-basics/WTD040077.htm 72 Week 20 Surrogacy: Just any other contract or the dehumanisation of women’s reproductive labour? Caroline Wright A cultural imperative towards having genetically related children has encouraged the growth of assisted conception techniques. Closely related to this has been the growth of surrogacy. Although in the UK commercial surrogate contracts are unenforceable, and there are strict limits to the ‘expenses’ that can be paid, surrogacy continues to take place. In addition, some British prospective parents travel to other countries, where commercial surrogacy is legal or less regulated. Some of you may recall the widely publicised case of the two gay men who fathered twins through a surrogacy contract with a woman from the US. Interestingly it was the question of their specific ‘fitness’ to parent that occupied much of the media's attention, rather than the context of surrogacy contracts themselves. This week, we will consider how social inequalities structure the context of surrogacy, and the ethical and political considerations of ‘renting a womb’. Surrogacy will be examined as part of the commodification of childbearing, and the wider implications this has for women will be discussed. Seminar Questions Is surrogacy just another contract? What structures the contract? Are surrogate mothers victims, monsters or rational agents? How does surrogacy challenge idealizations of biological motherhood? Does the trend for ‘surrogacy tourism’ matter? Core Reading and Viewing Affordable Surrogates: http://www.affordablesurrogates.com/index.php (browse generally) COTS UK (surrogacy support group): http://www.surrogacy.org.uk (browse generally) Phillips, A. (2013) Our Bodies, Whose Property?, Princeton: Princeton University Press, (Ch. 3 ‘Bodies for Rent: The Case of Commercial Surrogacy’) Available as an E-book: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2679342 Ragone, H. (2000) ‘Of likeness and difference: how race is being transfigured by gestational surrogacy’, in H. Ragone and F.W. Twine (Eds) Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism, London: Routledge, pp. 56-75 Available as an E-extract: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/search/extracts/so/so231 Van Zyl, L. and A. van Niekerk (2000) ‘Interpretations, perspectives and intentions in surrogate motherhood’, Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 404-409 Available as an E-journal article: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1742171~S1 Additional Reading Atwood, M. (1986) The Handmaid’s Tale, London: Cape 73 Baslington, H. (1996) ‘Anxiety overflow: implications of the IVF surrogacy case and the ethical and moral limits of reproductive technologies in Britain’, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 675-684 Berend, Zsuzsa (2012) ‘Surrogacy Losses: Failed Conception and Pregnancy Loss Among American Surrogate Mothers’, in Sarah Earle, Carol Komarory and Linda Layne (Eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 93104 Burfoot, A. (1995) ‘In-Appropriation: A Critique of Proceed with Care, Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies’, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 499-506 Cook, Rachel and Shelley Day Sclater with Felicity Kaganas (Eds) (2003) Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives, Oxford, Portland Oregan: Hart Publishing Corea, G. (1988) The Mother Machine, London: The Women's Press (Chapter on Surrogate Motherhood) Davis, A. Y. (1993) ‘Outcast mothers and surrogates: racism and reproductive politics in the nineties’, in L.S. Kauffman (Ed.) American Feminist Thought at the Century’s end: A Reader, Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Farquhar, D. (1996) The Other Machine, New York: Routledge (Ch. 6 ‘Surrogate Mothers: Victims or Monsters’) Greenfield, J. and S. Jennings (1995) ‘From surrogacy to contested adoption: what went wrong?’, Adoption and Fostering, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 34-40 Hartouni, V. (1997) Cultural Conceptions, Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press (Ch. 4 ‘Reproducing Public Meanings: in the Matter of Baby M’ and Ch. 5 ‘Breached Birth: Anna Johnson and the Reproduction of Raced Bodies’) Jackson, Emily (2001) Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, Oxford, Portland Oregan: Hart Publishing (Ch. 6 ‘Surrogacy’) Lee, R. G. (2001) Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Regulating the Reproduction Revolution, London: Blackstone (Ch. 8) Markens, S. (2007) Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction, Berkeley: University of California Press Morgan, D. (1994) ‘A surrogacy issue: who is the other mother?’, International Journal of Law and the Family, Vol. 8, No. 3 pp. 386-412 Philips, A. (2011) ‘It’s my body and I’ll do what I like with it: Bodies as Objects and Property’, Political Theory, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 724-748 Purdey, L.M. (2006) ‘Surrogate Mothers: Exploitation or Empowerment’, in H. Kuhse and P. Singer (Eds) Bioethics: An Anthology (2nd edition), Malden, MA, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell, pp. 90-99 74 Ragone, H. (1994) Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart, Boulder: Westview Press Ragone, H. (1999) ‘The gift of life: surrogate motherhood, gamete donation and constructions of altruism’, in L. Layne (Ed.) Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in Consumer Culture New York: New York University Press Roberts, Dorothy (1999) Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, New York: Vintage Books (Ch. 6) Rowland, R. (1992) Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technology, London: Lime Tree (Ch. 4 ‘The De-personalisation of birth-mothers in so-called surrogacy’) Stanworth, M. (1990) ‘Birth Pangs: Conceptive Technologies and the Threat to Motherhood’ in M. Hirsch and E. Fox Keller (Eds) Conflicts in Feminism, New York & London: Routledge Zipper, J. and S. Sevenhuijsen (1987) ‘Surrogacy: Feminist Notions of Motherhood Reconsidered’ in M. Stanworth (Ed.) Reproductive Technologies, Cambridge: Polity Press Van Niekerk, A. and L. Van Zyl (1995) ‘The Ethics of Surrogacy: Women’s Reproductive Labour’, Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 345-349 Websites Affordable Surrogates: http://www.affordablesurrogates.com/index.php Circle Surrogacy: http://www.circlesurrogacy.com/ European Women’s Lobby Campaign Against Surrogacy: http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article3281 FINNRAGE: http://www.finrrage.org/ Organisation of Parents through Surrogacy (OPTS): http://www.opts.com/ Surrogacy Centre India: http://www.opts.com/ Surrogacy Law: http://www.porterdodsonfertility.com/surrogacy-law/ Surrogacy UK: http://www.surrogacyuk.org/ Successful Parents (India): http://successful-parents.in/main/aboutus/ 75
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