[csaa-forum] Book Announcement: Figuring Fertility: Poetics in the Cultural Practices of Reproductive Science

[Lisa McDonald]

New Book Announcement

List members may be interested in the following new book from Post Pressed ...
Kind regards,
Lisa M

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Figuring Fertility: Poetics in the Cultural Practices of Reproductive Science
by Lisa McDonald, PhD (Post Pressed, Brisbane, 2011)

Figuring Fertility creatively explores the reproductive practices of “non-heterosexual” bodies that make other bodies with scientific or privately negotiated fertility technologies. By presenting original interview narratives of people’s reproductive experiences, as well as discussions with fertility scientists and clinicians, this book renders generative and inventive reproductive practice, while reassessing current identity debates in critical theory, cultural studies, feminist and science philosophies. The book’s narrative basis highlights the complex and varied ways that fertility science can evoke affective and unpredictable directions in people’s lives, and in doing so, critically proposes a posthumanities era of understanding human bodies, knowledge making and critique. Each section is an inspired attempt “To tell … Of bodies … And love” in ways that dissuade common identity models to review the influence of science in contemporary fertility practices and cultural sense-making. 

Available as paperback and e-book: http://www.e-contentmanagement.com/books/426/figuring-fertility-poetics-in-the-cultural
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