... and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Sinha Mrinalini . 2006 . Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Books in Brief FECUNDITY, FERTILITY CONTROL, AND FEMINIST “ALLIANCES...

... and conservative (even if accepting) perspectives on gay parenting. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Israel gay fatherhood fertility ethnicity References Allan James . 2007 . “And Baby Makes Three …: Gay Men, Straight Women, and Parental Imperative in Film and Television...

..., and using the male gull only for fertilization-that the story could justify any reader’s “perversion.” Playboy’s lampoonish elucidation of evolved mating habits illustrates what people inevitably do with scientific renderings of ‘hature”: alloy them with their values and visions of social life...

... the goddess whom they call mother and husband and conduct her rites of fertility in their communities across northern Karnataka and southern Maharashtra. Marginal but powerful, devadasis are widely framed as prostitutes, and their theogamous relation with the Devi (goddess) is not valued or recognized...

... in children with CRISPR would also be expensive if it were approved for use in fertility clinics. Standard IVF already costs upward of $20,000 in the United States and can be much more expensive if more than one cycle is needed for a successful pregnancy. When Matt Sharp's immune system was repaired...

... was a radical experiment in deliberately making families without “Father”—one that sidestepped physician gatekeeping by creating networks of community-sourced sperm—so quickly replaced by fertility clinics that turned lesbians’ social infertility into a medical problem in need of treatment, as well...

... of parental rights to same-sex couples. Like extremist Christians in the United States, who argue that homosexual relationships are cursed with infertility, Héritier assumes that all societies and civilizations defi ne fertility as biological. What she misses is that civilization owes much...

... materials are more pervasive and potent here than in the other novels. But For- ster’s problem was to make these materials and their celebration of fertility work in a fiction that ultimately stages the triumph of the unnatural. The lineage is female, figured in the fertility...

... for students and scholars interested in a fertile era of Black same-gender-loving men writing, performing, and resisting as though their very lives depended on it. I hope that this exceptional study will be the springboard for Bost's next project, perhaps a biography of the oft-neglected Dixon or some other...

.... The northern media’s focus on women as individuals torn between child rearing and careers masks environmental conditions of declining fertility, the reproductive inputs of industrial animal breeding, and the production 376 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES of a transnational market...

... religions are ascendant, being loved by the goddess might indeed make you queer(er). Scholars laboring in the relatively untrammeled terrain between queer studies and religious studies have long lamented the ways these fields have foreclosed possibilities of cross-fertilization. Within queer theory...

... with his fiction, especially when it comes to gender, an avenue of inquiry hinted at in the book’s conclusion. Here Brim con- siders Baldwin’s published dialogues with a number of women, including Nikki Giovanni and Audre Lorde, which provide fertile ground for him to extend his critique of what he...

... fertility, Boyarin argues that “the associ- ation between the anus, anal penetration, shit, and birth-giving seems to be well established on the overt intertextual level within which Freud worked and can thus be legitimately read in his own letters as well” (127). At stake...

... on the financialization of fertility. A medical sociologist and LGBTQ activist by training, Alex has had work appear in biomedical and social science journals such as Science , JAMA Internal Medicine , the British Medical Journal , Socius , and LGBT Health . Marion Boulicault is a feminist philosopher...

... juncture from which to articu- late the complex cross- fertilizations between possession by the spirits of ancestral monarchs and the political imagination of MSM.9 Over the course of twenty- four months of ethnographic research between 2012 and 2015, I learned that the Mala- gasy MSM activist movement...

...” and a creative experiment of the twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim, a science writer and an art professor, respectively, and the Los Angeles nonprofit Institute for Figuring; like the marine organism, the crochet reef is fertile and spawns its fiber tentacles to stage public art interventions...

... the law to mean “an individual whose biological reproductive system is designed to produce ova,” while “male” would have become someone “whose biological reproductive system is designed to fertilize the ova of a female.” In the estimation of these states, the civic sin of transition joins abortion through...

..., and we find lesbians paying astonishing amounts of money for frozen sperm samples, taking hormones, and visiting the offices of fertility specialists. The Oakland Feminist Health Center is now the Sperm Bank of California. The heart of the book is its fascinating interviews with lesbians...

..., and we find lesbians paying astonishing amounts of money for frozen sperm samples, taking hormones, and visiting the offices of fertility specialists. The Oakland Feminist Health Center is now the Sperm Bank of California. The heart of the book is its fascinating interviews with lesbians...

.... Knowledge of how to get pregnant without sex was passed along in the workshops and informal networks of the women’s health movement. Fast-forward thirty years, and we find lesbians paying astonishing amounts of money for frozen sperm samples, taking hormones, and visiting the offices of fertility...