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Amy Speier Fertility Holidays (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Fertility Holidays
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- EAN
- 9781479849109
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- ISBN
- 9781479849109
- ISBN-10
- 1479849103
- Release Date
- 08/09/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Subtitle
- IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
- Title
- Fertility Holidays
- Subject
- Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Fertility Holidays : Ivf Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized "baby business," the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price. Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the procedures are framed as "holidays." The pitch of combining a vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange place. Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans' journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, and technological success.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
1479849103
ISBN-13
9781479849109
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219467883
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Fertility Holidays : Ivf Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2015-043574
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ra793.5.S66 2016
Reviews
Fertility Holidays focuses on a group of North Americans traveling to the Czech Republic in search of respectful medical care at market-driven low prices, combined with a European vacation. In Speiers adroit analysis, their layers of techno-hope cannot be separated from a desire to stabilize their chances of giving birth to 'white' babies. This compelling ethnographic account of Eastern European fertility entrepreneurship provides feminist insight into the marketization of reproductive bodies, showing how multilayered and multi-sited medical travel has become., "Fertility Holidays focuses on a group of North Americans traveling to the Czech Republic in search of respectful medical care at market-driven low prices, combined with a European vacation. In Speier's adroit analysis, their layers of techno-hope cannot be separated from a desire to stabilize their chances of giving birth to 'white' babies. This compelling ethnographic account of Eastern European fertility entrepreneurship provides feminist insight into the marketization of reproductive bodies, showing how multilayered and multi-sited medical travel has become."-Rayna Rapp,author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, "One of the first ethnographies on reproductive tourism, this book offers a captivating read into what these multi-faceted transnational experiences are like for the women, and men, involved as patients, clients, consumers, vacationers, and sometimes, parents. Through her nimble fieldwork, Amy Speier allows readers to see what it means in practice to seek out IVF as a patient-tourist in a global neoliberal marketplace of reproductive technologies and affective labor. . . . An intimate glimpse into the 21st century "systems of hope" on which many infertile heterosexual couples now depend to become parents, Fertility Holidays is timely and fascinating; a must read!"-Susan Frohlick,University of British Columbia, One of the first ethnographies on reproductive tourism, this book offers a captivating read into what these multi-faceted transnational experiences are like for the women, and men, involved as patients, clients, consumers, vacationers, and sometimes, parents. Through her nimble fieldwork, Amy Speier allows readers to see what it means in practice to seek out IVF as a patient-tourist in a global neoliberal marketplace of reproductive technologies and affective labor. . . . An intimate glimpse into the 21st century systems of hope on which many infertile heterosexual couples now depend to become parents, Fertility Holidays is timely and fascinating; a must read!
Copyright Date
2016
Dewey Decimal
362.1
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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