Conceiving Masculinity Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity

Name: Conceiving Masculinity Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
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ISBN: 9781439910429

ISBN-10: 1439910421

ISBN-13: 9781439910429

Edition: 2014

Authors: Liberty Walther Barnes

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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 society that prizes male virility. Conceiving…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 4/25/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English