Ryan-Flood, Roisin (2018) Lesbians and Reproductive Healthcare. In: Transnationalising Reproduction Third Party Conception in a Globalised World. Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness (1st). Routledge, pp. 162-173. ISBN 9781138840713. Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Transnationalising-Repro...
Ryan-Flood, Roisin (2018) Lesbians and Reproductive Healthcare. In: Transnationalising Reproduction Third Party Conception in a Globalised World. Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness (1st). Routledge, pp. 162-173. ISBN 9781138840713. Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Transnationalising-Repro...
Ryan-Flood, Roisin (2018) Lesbians and Reproductive Healthcare. In: Transnationalising Reproduction Third Party Conception in a Globalised World. Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness (1st). Routledge, pp. 162-173. ISBN 9781138840713. Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Transnationalising-Repro...
Abstract
This chapter explores the implications of choosing to parent outside heteronormative parameters. Drawing on interviews with 68 lesbian parents in Sweden and Ireland, the practical challenges facing lesbians embarking on parenthood are examined. Lesbians faced numerous difficulties in accessing reproductive health care services. They often struggled to find a known donor and only those with sufficient financial resources could travel abroad for donor insemination at a clinic. The transnational networks that develop for lesbians seeking fertility services abroad are explored. It is argued that prevailing theories of sexual citizenship fail to take sufficient account of gender in relation to biopolitics.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
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Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2021 09:12 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:40 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23885 |