LEADER 04801nam 22004933 450 001 9910865286503321 005 20240802000720.0 010 $a9783031593864$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031593857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31369971 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31369971 035 $a(CKB)32238791500041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932238791500041 100 $a20240621d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCyborg conception $ecultural and critical responses to solo motherhood by choice /$fGrace Halden 210 1$aCham :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2024] 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (168 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 311 08$aPrint version: Halden, Grace Cyborg Conception Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031593857 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Reflection -- Introduction: Cultural and Critical Responses to Solo Motherhood by Choice -- A Note About Terminology -- References -- Chapter 2: Cyborg Conception: The Solo Mother as a Cyborg Not a Goddess -- Reflection -- Introduction: The 1980s Tripartite Mother: Single, Goddess, and Cyborg -- Cyborg and Solo Motherhood by Choice -- Goddess and Single Mother -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Liminal Experience: The Solo Mother, Fertility Clinics, and Ambiguous Loss -- Reflection -- Introduction: The Liminal Space Between Natural and Unnatural -- Obligation Not to Conceive: SMBC and Anti-donation Discourse -- Liminal Experience: Fertility Clinics -- Liminal Experience: Ambiguous Loss -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Reckless Radicals: The Solo Mother in Fiction and Popular Culture -- Reflection -- Introduction: What Is Cyborg Fiction? -- The "Inadequate" Solo Mother in Young-Adult Literature -- Correcting the "Problem" of the Single Mother in Adult Fiction -- Conclusion: What Is To Be Done? -- References -- Chapter 5: Personal Storytelling: The Solo Mother and Lived Experience -- Reflection -- Introduction: Real Experiences -- Choice, Fairy Tales, and Planning Families -- Guides, Educating, and Collaborating -- Conclusion: Theorists for Cyborgs -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Introduction: Cyborg Language -- Single, Solo, and Choice: A Language of Difference -- Reflection -- References -- Index. 330 $aThis book considers the growing popularity of solo motherhood via gamete donation and how this type of "cyborg conception" is narrated in medicine, bioethics, fiction, and memoir. It identifies solo mothers as radical women who exist in a space beyond binarity (male/female dual-rearing dynamic) and heteronormative discourse; solo mothers represent, among other diverse family constructions (such as same-sex couples and throuples), a critical intervention in the dominant narrative of the nuclear family which defines the "ideal" reproductive model. This book combines memoir and scholarly research to present a deeply nuanced and rigorous overview of the solo motherhood phenomenon. Grace Halden is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She specialises in reproductive health, reproductive technologies, assisted reproduction (IUI and IVF), donor conception, and bioethics. Her work is interdisciplinary and sits in the juncture between literary studies and medical humanities. Grace is also a solo mother by choice and a professional member of the Donor Conception Network (DCN). She has won several funding grants for her donor conception work (two funded by the Wellcome Institute) and is published widely in the field 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aSingle mothers$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001622 606 $aArtificial insemination, Human$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008176 606 $aArtificial insemination, Human$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008176$xMoral and ethical aspects$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006099 606 $aArtificial insemination, Human$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008176$xSocial aspects$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002758 615 0$aSingle mothers. 615 0$aArtificial insemination, Human. 615 0$aArtificial insemination, Human$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aArtificial insemination, Human$xSocial aspects. 676 $a304.6/32 700 $aHalden$b Grace$f1983-$01752888 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865286503321 996 $aCyborg conception$94188391 997 $aUNINA