Gender, Identity & Reproduction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction

   1. Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction

      • Sarah Earle, Gayle Letherby

      Pages 1-11

3. Representing Reproduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-17

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   2. Representations of Motherhood

      • Kath Woodward

      Pages 18-32

   3. Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture

      • Tabitha Freeman

      Pages 33-49

   4. Battle of the Gametes: Cultural Representations of ‘Medically’ Assisted Conception

      • Gayle Letherby

      Pages 50-65

4. Reproductive Encounters: Cooperation and Negotiation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-73

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   2. Birth Matters: Learning from My Past — A Midwifery for the Future

      • Barbara Katz Rothman

      Pages 74-86

   3. Your Dignity is Hung Up at the Door: Pakistani and White Women’s Experiences of Childbirth

      • Alison Bowes, Teresa M. Domokos

      Pages 87-102

   4. The Quintessential Female Act? Learning about Birth

      • Judy Purkis

      Pages 103-119

   5. Dutch Midwives: The Difference between Image and Reality

      • Edwin R. van Teijlingen

      Pages 120-134

   6. Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Identity

      • Sarah Earle

      Pages 135-150

5. Reproductive Identities: Exclusion and Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-159

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   2. Woe the Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters

      • Deborah Davidson

      Pages 160-173

   3. I didn’t Think Much of his Bedside Manner but he was very Skilled at his Job: Medical Encounters in Relation to ‘Infertility’

      • Gayle Letherby

      Pages 174-190

   4. Cutting Out Motherhood: Childfree Sterilized Women

      • Annily Campbell

      Pages 191-204

   5. Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women’s Accounts of their Experiences of Menopause

      • Gill Wadsworth, Eileen Green

      Pages 205-221

   6. Reflecting on Reproduction

      • Sarah Earle, Gayle Letherby

      Pages 225-230

6. Back Matter

   Pages 231-236

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Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights difference and diversity in relation to contemporary reproductive choices. The book focuses on women's and men's experiences of agency, control and negotiation within the context of cultural, medical, political, theoretical and lay ideologies of the reproductive process in contemporary Western societies.

• fertility
• gender
• identity
• infertility
• menopause
• reproduction
• women

• Centre for Healthcare Education, University College Northampton, UK

  Sarah Earle

• Centre for Social Justice, Coventry University, UK

  Gayle Letherby

ALISON BOWES is Professor of Sociology, University of Stirling, UK ANNILY CAMPBELL is Student Advisor at Oxford University Student Union, UK DEBORAH DAVIDSON is a Doctoral Student and Tutorial Assistant in Sociology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada TERESA M. DOMOKOS is a former Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, UK SARAH EARLE is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at University College Northampton, UK TABITHA FREEMAN is studying for her PhD at the Sociology Department, University of Essex, UK EILEEN GREEN is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social and Policy Research at the University of Teeside, UK BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, USA GAYLE LETHERBY is Associate Head of Subject and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Justice at Coventry University, UK JUDY PURKIS is a Senior Lecturer in Women's Health Studies at the University of Central England, UK EDWIN VAN TEIJLINGEN is a Medical Sociologist at the University of Aberdeen, UK GILL WADSWORTH is a Project Co-ordinator for an independent research company KATH WOODWARD is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, UK

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