..".an overdue first step in recognizing that men's role in
contemporary human reproduction - from their gametes to their
psyches - has been a neglected realm of scientific and scholarly
pursuit." . Robert D. Nachtigall, M.D., Institute for Health and
Aging, University of California, San Francisco
Extensive social science research, particularly by
anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use
of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and
nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored
men's reproductive concerns or contributions to women's
reproductive health: Men are clearly viewed as the "second sex" in
reproduction. This volume argues that the marginalization of men is
an oversight of considerable proportions, and thereby seeks to
break the silence surrounding men's thoughts, experiences, and
feelings about their reproductive lives. It sheds new light on male
reproduction from a cross-cultural, global perspective, focusing
not only upon men in Europe and America but also those in the
Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Both heterosexual and
homosexual, married and unmarried men are featured in this volume,
which assesses concerns ranging from masculinity and sexuality to
childbirth and fatherhood. Thus, men are brought back into the
equation, as reproductive partners, progenitors, fathers,
nurturers, and decision-makers.
Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of
Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of
Anthropology and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for
International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the
past-president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the
American Anthropological Association. A specialist on infertility
and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East,
she is the author or editor of six books on the subject.
Tine Tjornhoj-Thomsen is a Social Anthropologist and Associate
Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Copenhagen. She has done extensive research into infertility,
reproductive technologies and kinship in Denmark. In 1998 she
received a prize for the work relating to her PhD thesis, Stories
of Coming into Being: Childlessness, Procreative Technologies and
Kinship in Denmark.
Helene Goldberg is a Social Anthropologist whose research on
male infertility in Israel has won several prizes. She is
associated with the Department of Health Development in
Guldborgsund, Denmark, where she focuses on health behavior and
lifestyle illnesses.
Maruska la Cour Mosegaard is a Social Anthropologist and has
recently finished research on homosexual fatherhood in Denmark. She
is currently working at KVINFO, the Danish Center of Information on
Women and Gender Research. She is coauthor of a children's book
that introduces the various ways children today come into being in
single-parent, heterosexual, and homosexual families; it will
appear in December 2008 in both Danish and Swedish."
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