By Katie Gentile (USA)

The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies, in Psychoanalysis and Culture is the first book to critically analyze assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) from a transdisciplinary perspective integrating psychoanalytic and cultural theories. It is a groundbreaking collection exploring ARTs through diverse methods including interview research with people who went through ARTs, clinical case studies of egg donation and the varieties of Oedipal and family constellations that can be built through ARTs, psychoanalytic based ethnography in a neonatal ICU, and a memoir of male infertility. With psychoanalysis as its fulcrum, The Business of Being Made explores the ways ARTs have become a complex form of playing with time, attempting to manufacture a hopeful future in the midst of growing global uncertainty. Full of original material, The Business of Being Made conveys the ambivalence of these technologies—e.g., their potentials for transformative kinships and retraumatization around sexual abuse—without simplifying their complicated consequences for the bodies of individuals, the family, cultures, and our planet.

This is also the first book in a brand new book series published by Routledge, Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Cultures, co-edited by Katie Gentile, Muriel Dimen, Lisa Baraitser, and Stephen Hartman. The book series focuses on integrating psychoanalytic and cultural theories exploring genders and sexualities.

Link to book series: https://www.routledge.com/series/GSMC

Link to book: https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415749411

Katie Gentile, PhD
Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Director, Gender Studies Program
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W. 59th Street, Rm. 6.65.08NB
New York City, NY 10019  USA
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Co-Editor, Studies in Gender & Sexuality: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HSGS
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