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Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
ISBN/EAN: 9781137297631
Umbreit-Nr.: 2571885
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xi, 192 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 03.02.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
- Zusatztext
- With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life. Using in-depth interviews the authors explore the lived reality of donor conception and offer insights into the complexities of these new family relationships.
- Kurztext
- First book to explore how donor conception practices are situated in and impact on wider family relationships and personal lifeExamines both lesbian and heterosexual parents and the perspective of grandparents - a highly original and under-theorized viewpointThe authors explore the lived reality of donor conception using in-depth interviews to offer insights into the complexities of these new family relationships
- Autorenportrait
- Petra Nordqvist is Lecturer in Sociology in the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at the University of Manchester, UK. Carol Smart is Professor of Sociology in the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at the University of Manchester, UK. Her recent publications include Personal Life and Same Sex Marriages (with B. Heaphy and A. Einarsdottir).