Overview
- First book to explore how donor conception practices are situated in and impact on wider family relationships and personal life
- Examines both lesbian and heterosexual parents and the perspective of grandparents - a highly original and under-theorized viewpoint
- The authors explore the lived reality of donor conception using in-depth interviews to offer insights into the complexities of these new family relationships
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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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.
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Reviews
"This book isn't a dry academic tome ... it is accessible and can be read by anyone with an interest in donor conception. I would strongly recommend it to parents of donor-conceived children to whom it could be enormously reassuring." - Sarah Norcross, BioNews
"The insights gained in the in-depth interviews with members of lesbian and heterosexual couple families who have used donor conception are beyond anything I have ever come across before, and should be enormously helpful in re-assessing both the policy and practice of the range of support that needs to be in place at every stage of the donor conception family journey." - Olivia's View blog
"The book is very interesting and a good illustration of some of some of the changes, dynamics and fluidities of family life." - Network: Magazine of the British Sociological Association
"Intelligent and informed reflection on how the interviewees themselves have come to work on the relevant issues, how their own uses of metaphors relating to genes and the contribution of donor gametes have been shaped by their experiences, and how this work reflects on family life and kinship more widely." - Journal of Social Policy
'It is not often that an academic book can be described as truly delightful, but, in the case of Relative Strangers such a description is certainly appropriate.' Sociology of Health & Illness
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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).
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception
Authors: Petra Nordqvist, Carol Smart
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297648
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29763-1Published: 03 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29766-2Published: 03 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29764-8Published: 02 January 2014
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 192
Topics: Popular Science in Psychology, Gender Studies, Ethics, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Reproductive Medicine, Children, Youth and Family Policy