Conceiving Reproduction
New Reproductive Technologies and the Redefinition of the Kinship Narrative in New Zealand Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2144653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsten Lovelock (Otago Polytechnic, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-146 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00664677.2010.487296 |
| OpenAlex | W1990090392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper focuses on technologies for assisting conception and considers how normative notions of conception and family formation have informed the rejection, incorporation and adaptation of technologies and their regulation in New Zealand. Drawing on a textual analysis of primary written materials and secondary sources generated between 1965 and 2004, the paper reveals how these technologies help various groups in New Zealand society make explicit their understandings of relatedness, identity and social and cultural belonging. Whilst biological/genetic connection and social connections inform understandings of kinship, reproduction, parenthood and social structure for many New Zealanders, the boundaries between the biological and social are often blurred and precedence of one over the other is very much context dependent. The incorporation of the new reproductive technologies has been an inherently politicised process, with barriers to access to these technologies emerging in relation to ethnic identity and race, sexuality, socioeconomic status, gender, and marital status
Adaptation (eye) · Aesthetics · Biology · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Ethnic group · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Kinship · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Reproduction · Reproductive technology · Sociology · Anthropology · Ecology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Kinship with strangers
Strategic Naturalizing
The woman in the body
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
Born and Bred
Gender and kinship
A Critique of the Study of Kinship
Your child is your whakapapa
Motherhood and Infertility
Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Feminism and abortion politics
Intercountry Adoption as a Migratory Practice
Intercountry Adoption as a Migratory Practice
Technologies of Procreation
The ethics of the birth plan in childbirth management practices
Knowing where you've come from
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |