For women who have healthy ova but cannot sustain a pregnancy to term, surrogate parenting is an option. The couple’s sperm and ovum are combined, and the zygote is implanted in another woman, called a gestational carrier. One gestational carrier relates her experiences: It’s wonderful being a carrier. It’s not easy, but it’s wonderful. You […]
День: 10.11.2015
Inadequate families
Lone mothers and the underclass debate Sasha Roseneil and Kirk Mann Alongside the growth in the number of women both having children outside marriage and bringing them up alone, recent years have seen extensive public debate about lone motherhood. This chapter explores the way this debate has created a category of mothers that is not […]
Conclusions
In order to understand men, masculinity and sexuality in rural and urban East Africa it has been necessary to locate men and women within the complex and changing social, political and economic systems. As my research from both rural Kisii and urban Dar es Salaam shows, sexuality and sexual behaviour do not occur in a […]
DANGEROUSNESS, IMPOTENCE,. SILENCE, AND INVISIBILITY:. HETEROSEXISM IN THE. CONSTRUCTION OF. WOMEN’S SEXUALITY
LAURA S. BROWN Although the phenomenology of sexuality is experienced in the body, the ways we label and define that sexual experience are heavily socially defined. What is shameful, what is acceptable, how one describes one’s sexual identity to self and others, are all derived from the social discourse in general, and the discourse on […]
Oocyte and Embryo Transplants
Some women may not be able to produce healthy ova due to ovarian failure or age — related infertility. For these women, oocyte (egg) and embryo donation have been successful. Live birth rates for oocyte and embryo donation range from 25% to 35% (Sauer et al., 1995). An embryo transplant involves artificial insemination of a […]
Unequal Wages and Fragile Marriages—. The Countertendency
Women’s move into the economy, as a new urban peasantry, is the basic social revolution of our time. On the whole, it has increased the power of women. But at the same time, other realities lower women’s power. If women’s work outside the home increases their need for male help inside it, two facts—that women […]
Risks to Fetal Development
The rapidly developing fetus depends on the mother for nutrients, oxygen, and waste elimination as substances pass through the placenta (a disk-shaped organ attached to the wall of the uterus, shown in I Figure 11.5). The fetus is joined to the placenta by the umbilical cord. The fetal blood circulates independently within the closed system […]
THE ABSENCE OF ‘RACE’: THE CASE OF THE SILENT DISCOURSE
Black families have consistently been identified as problematic in both Britain and the USA (McAdoo 1988; Phoenix 1987, 1990, 1993). In particular, high rates of lone motherhood in populations of African origin have been blamed for problems ranging from educational underachievement to delinquency (see, for example, the report of the official inquiry into the underachievement […]
‘Professional’ impotence
Some men are in love with their work, and put all their energy into it — which can lead to problems. One of these is described by the sexologist Wolfgang Buhl in Eros mit grauen Schlafen (1962): ‘professional impotence’. Buhl also speaks of ‘scholarly impotence’. Any academics who feel under attack can console themselves with […]
Third-Trimester Development
In the third trimester, the fetus continues to grow, developing the size and strength it will need to live on its own (I Figure 11.4). It increases in weight from 4 pounds in the 7th month to an average of over 7 pounds at birth. The downlike hair covering its body disappears, and head hair […]