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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Berghahn Books, Incorporated

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781785339462

RRP: £85.00

PAGES: 216

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 31, 2018

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Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

Sebastian Mohr

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 related negotiations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy, showing how socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.

Reviews of Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

"Mohr is to be commended on having carried out an ethnographic study that is thorough and sensitive. Not only that, the work shows considerable theoretical ambition in its analysis of biomedical subjectivation at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and assisted reproductive technologies… informed by a comprehensive grasp of kinship, feminist and queer theories." – Bob Simpson, University of Durham

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Sebastian Mohr

Sebastian Mohr is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He works on the ethnography of gender, sexuality, and intimacy in the fields of (reproductive) biomedicine, the military and militarization, and technology. He is co-convenor of the EASA European Network for Queer Anthropology, board member of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association, and member of the editorial board of Women, Gender & Research.