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On having an own child : reproductive technologies and the cultural construction of childhood / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Karnac Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xxiv, 199 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1855755459
  • 9781855755451
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 176 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ755.8 .L487 2008
  • BF637.P27 L47x 2008
Contents:
Introduction -- The wanting of a baby: nature, history, culture, and society -- The wanting of a baby: desire, despair, hope, and regret -- The child that is wanted: perfection and commodification -- The child that is wanted: kinship and the body of evidence -- The child that is wanted: reading race and the global child -- Conclusion: coming to grief in theory.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.

Introduction -- The wanting of a baby: nature, history, culture, and society -- The wanting of a baby: desire, despair, hope, and regret -- The child that is wanted: perfection and commodification -- The child that is wanted: kinship and the body of evidence -- The child that is wanted: reading race and the global child -- Conclusion: coming to grief in theory.

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