Introduction: being a sperm donor -- Becoming a sperm donor: conceptual pathways -- Regimes of living: donating semen and the pleasure of morality -- Affective investments: masturbation and the pleasure of control -- Biosocial relatedness: being connected and the pleasure of responsibility -- The limits of biosocial subjectivation: male shame and the displeasure of gender normativity -- Conclusion: biosocial subjectivation reconsidered.
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What does it mean to be a man in our biomedical day and age' Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary. It investigates men's moral reasoning regarding donation, their handling of transgressive experiences at the sperm bank, and their negotiations of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and relatedness, showing how the socio-cultural and political dimensions of (reproductive) biomedicine become intertwined with men's intimate sense of self.
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JSTOR
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Ingram Content Group
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22573/ctvvx462d
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978178533947901
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Title
Being a sperm donor.
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9781785339462
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Artificial insemination, Human-- Social aspects-- Denmark.
Masculinity-- Denmark.
Sex-- Denmark.
Sperm donors-- Denmark.
Artificial insemination, Human-- Social aspects.
Masculinity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.