Download or read book Infertility and Non Traditional Family Building written by Rebecca Feasey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming. In so doing, it illustrates how pregnancy loss, involuntary childlessness and non-traditional mothering are being depicted across the media landscape. Whilst the topic of motherhood has emerged as a significant area of academic debate, narratives of unsuccessful or unconventional mothering have remained largely absent, even at a time when there is a growing conversation about infertility online. Timely, pertinent and original, the book demonstrates the importance of a broader and more informed cultural discussion about fertility and family building.
Download or read book Healing the Infertile Family written by Gay Becker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Download or read book Infertility Answer Book The Complete Guide to Your Family Building Choices with Fertility and Other Assisted Reproduction Technologies written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What options do I have on my path to parenthood? Conceiving your own child is difficult. Innovative technologies in assisted reproduction explore new alternatives to traditional pregnancy, but legal matters and financial considerations complicate these choices. Educate yourself on the available options that are allowing families to bring a baby into their homes. The Infertility Answer Book answers your questions regarding the advantages and disadvantages involved with all of the options available, including: How do find an egg donor?; Will my insurance cover fertility treatments?; What happens in cryopreservation if a parent dies?; What are the risks with using a surrogate?; Should I also be trying adoption?; What laws are involved with insemination?; How do I keep embryo donation private?; When should I discuss my ART choice with my child?The Infertility Answer Book is your complete guide to the family-building possibilities beyond traditional pregnancy.
Download or read book The Infertility Answer Book 2E written by Brette McWhorter McWhorter Sember and published by SphinxLegal. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your guide to building a family through adoption.
Download or read book Family Building Through Egg and Sperm Donation written by Machelle M. Seibel and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compilation of essays, a variety of professionals, writing chapters in areas of their expertise, seek to reconcile alternative methods of family creation to those considered the traditional norms. Seibel and Crockin have woven these essays to form a multidisciplinary sourcebook unlike any other.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction written by Sallie Han and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction. The book brings together work from across the discipline of anthropology, with contributions by established and emerging scholars in archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology. Across these areas of research, consideration is given to the contexts, conditions, and contingencies that mark and shape the experiences of reproduction as always gendered, classed, and racialized. Over 39 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: Reproductive governance, stratification, justice, and freedom. Fertility and infertility. Technologies and imaginations. Queering reproduction. Pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive loss. Postpartum and infant care. Care, kinship, and alloparenting. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology and related disciplines associated with reproduction, including sociology, gender studies, science and technology studies, human development and family studies, global health, public health, medicine, medical humanities, and midwifery and nursing.
Download or read book Single Parents written by Berit Åström and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse how various societies respond to these parents and family forms. Through a range of materials, methodologies and national perspectives, chapters make up three sections to cover single mothers, single fathers and solo mothers (single women who became parents through assisted reproductive technologies). The authors reveal that single parenthood is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status, with age, sexuality and the reason for being a single parent coming into play. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Download or read book Infertility No More A Comprehensive Guide to Starting Your Family written by Shu Chen Hou and published by KOKOSHUNGSAN®. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling with infertility and feeling lost on your family journey? Look no further than "Infertility No More: A Comprehensive Guide to Starting Your Family." This guide provides a step-by-step approach to overcoming infertility and starting your family. From understanding the causes of infertility to exploring fertility treatments, this guide covers it all. Written by experienced healthcare professionals, "Infertility No More" provides practical advice and support for individuals and couples navigating infertility. With in-depth information on alternative medicine, assisted reproductive technologies, and fertility preservation, this guide is your ultimate resource for starting your family journey. Don't let infertility stand in the way of your dreams of parenthood. "Infertility No More" is the comprehensive guide you need to conquer infertility and start your family. Get your copy today and take the first step towards building the family of your dreams!
Download or read book Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing written by Helena Wahlström Henriksson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.
Download or read book Alternatives to Infertility written by Lita Linzer Schwartz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for professionals involved in the counselling of involuntarily childless couples. It attempts to explain the benefits and risks of the options available to infertile couples and includes discussion of the Baby M case and the psychological and legal ramifications of surrogacy.
Download or read book Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting written by Ian Ruthven and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting looks at information behaviour in relationship creation and breakdown, parenting, starting and ending work, developing sexualities, becoming ill, being a victim of crime, and dying, to show how our we sculpt information solutions that transform our lives and transform ourselves.
Download or read book Family Bound written by Carrie Ostrea and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics show that over two million couples will experience some type of infertility issue when they try to become pregnant. However, when you are one of those two million, you feel completely alone and believe that no one can truly understand what you are going through. This honest and revealing book documents one couple's long and arduous journey to become parents from the eyes of the author. The longer this process took, the more emotional and difficult things became, and the more the author relied on this journal to sort out all the emotions she was having. She never expected that this journal would last for years, hundreds of hormone shots and pills, blood draws, surgical procedures, terrorist attacks, international flights and the most emotional and financial roller coaster that she had ever been on. But she and her husband were desperate to become parents, to have their own child to love, to hug, to experience life with. By sharing their experience, this book offers insight into the emotional, physical and sociological effects infertility has on a couple's relationship, their families, friends and themselves as individuals. It also provides in-depth detail of popular infertility treatments, domestic and international adoption processes.
Download or read book Gender in the Digital Sphere written by Barbara Mitra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital sphere, especially social media, is perceived as a new form of public sphere where individuals can share and circulate information and participate in formal and informal democratic processes albeit in the context of echo chambers and confirmation biases. Gender in the Digital Sphere explores how we represent, express, and engage with the digital world via the lens of gender. Each chapter touches on one of the three pillars of engagement, expression, or representation in relation to the digital world, and themes range from social media, body image and identity to feminist activism to gender and digital narratives. The contributors raise important questions about the impact of digital media in everyday life and make connections between theory and everyday accounts of gender and technology.
Download or read book Reproductive Health and Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults written by Gwendolyn P Quinn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductive medicine is a growing field with new technology emerging faster than we can assess consumer’s perceptions of –the number of cancer survivors are growing and there is a great need to attend to their quality of life-this book addresses the needs of males and females, identifies effective communication strategies and proactive measures for health care professionals and researchers to use as well as identifying gaps in the literature where more research is needed.
Download or read book Resolving Infertility written by Diane Aronson and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where you are on your infertility journey, this is the definitive resource to help you sort out the options and navigate through this experience. Tells you everything you need to know about infertility treatment and exploring other family-building options. Beginning with an overview of the biology of conception and the causes of infertility, the book takes you step-by-step through the medical process, from diagnosis to treatment. It offers advice on choosing your medical team and reproductive technologies. Discusses the myriad emotional issues connected with infertility; alternative options such as surrogacy, adoption, donor pregnancy, or living child-free; and advice on planning your finances and knowing your legal options and responsibilities. Illus.
Download or read book Budgeting for Infertility written by Evelina Weidman Sterling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a baby can be one of the most wonderful times of your life -- but if you need help to conceive, it can swiftly become a staggeringly expensive undertaking. With the average cost of infertility treatments ranging from $35,000 to $85,000 in the United States (most of which is not covered by insurance companies), many women and couples find themselves having to make difficult choices about building their families. Getting a grip on your finances is one of the few things you can do to regain control of this process. Infertility experts Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss have created the ultimate guide to ensuring the most cost-effective care with the highest chances for success. With anecdotes, interviews, and advice from both doctors and patients, you can easily apply these specific money-saving strategies to your own unique situation. Learn how to: - Select a fertility clinic with a high rate of success - Convince your insurance company to cover more of the costs - Track down the most affordable fertility drugs - Travel abroad for cheaper care or international surrogacy - Avoid the scams and unnecessary expenses every step of the way Personal and professional, Budgeting for Infertility is an invaluable resource that shows you how to pay for infertility treatment...and still have money in the bank for diapers and day care.
Download or read book Not Trying written by Kristin J. Wilson and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One message that comes along with ever-improving fertility treatments and increasing acceptance of single motherhood, older first-time mothers, and same-sex partnerships, is that almost any woman can and should become a mother. The media and many studies focus on infertile and involuntarily childless women who are seeking treatment. They characterize this group as anxious and willing to try anything, even elaborate and financially ruinous high-tech interventions, to achieve a successful pregnancy. But the majority of women who struggle with fertility avoid treatment. The women whose interviews appear in Not Trying belong to this majority. Their attitudes vary and may change as their life circumstances evolve. Some support the prevailing cultural narrative that women are meant to be mothers and refuse to see themselves as childfree by choice. Most of these women, who come from a wider range of social backgrounds than most researchers have studied, experience deep ambivalence about motherhood and non-motherhood, never actually choosing either path. They prefer to let life unfold, an attitude that seems to reduce anxiety about not conforming to social expectations.
