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11%OFFLiberty Walther Barnes - Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity - 9781439910429 - V9781439910429
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Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity

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Description for Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity Paperback. Puts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. This book details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.

In Conceiving Masculinity, Liberty Walther Barnes puts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. 

 

Taking readers inside male infertility clinics, and interviewing doctors and couples dealing with male infertility, Barnes provides a rich account of the social aspects of the confusing and frustrating diagnosis of infertility. She explains why men resist a stigmatizing label like "infertile," and how men with poor fertility redefine for themselves what it means to be manly and masculine in a ... Read more

 

Broaching a socially taboo topic, Barnes emphasizes that infertility is not just a women's issue. She shows how gender and disease are socially constructed within social institutions and by individuals. 

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439910429
SKU
V9781439910429
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Liberty Walther Barnes
Liberty Walther Barnes is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

Reviews for Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
"[A] compassionate and substantive analysis of male infertility. Her ethnographic work is two-pronged: first, it reveals the history of male infertility and the responses of modern medicine; second, it studies the ways in which this oft-hidden precinct of medicine works overtime to bolster the masculinity of its patients [...] Barnes weaves a bounty of analytic threads into a compelling ethnography ... Read more

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