Romancing the Sperm Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families

Diane Tober, "Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families"
English | ISBN: 0813590795 | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The 1990s marked a new era in family formation. Increased access to donor sperm enabled single women and lesbian couples to create their families on their own terms, outside the bounds of heterosexual married relationships. However, emerging "alternative" families were not without social and political controversy. Women who chose to have children without male partners faced many challenges in their quest to have children. Despite current wider social acceptance of single people and same sex couples becoming parents, many of these challenges continue.