Exploring the use of assisted reproduction technologies in many different locations, this volume addresses five central themes--transnational reproflows, national constraints and conditions, religious and other kinds of fundamentalism, demographic agendas and biopolitics, and "new normals" and their discontents--to provide a general understanding of policies, discourses and practices of ARTs in the contemporary world.

Merete Lie is Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and leader of the Centre for Gender Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.

Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, co-director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and director of InterGender International Research School, Sweden.

Part I: ARTs in a Neoliberal World of Transnational Reproflows

1. Citizen, Subject, Property: Indian Surrogacy and the Global Fertility Market

2. Fair Play in a Dirty Field? The Ethical Work of Commissioning Surrogacy in India

3. "Families Like We'd Always Known"? Spanish Gay Fathers' Normalization Narratives in Transnational Surrogacy

4. Destination Spain: Negotiating Nationality and Fertility when Traveling for Eggs

5. The South African Economy of Egg Donation: Looking at the BioEconomic Side of Normalization

Part II: Perplexed State Regulations, Legal Inconsistencies and Cultural Tricksters

6. Governing New Reproductive Technologies across Western Europe: The Gender Dimension

7. Norwegian Biopolitics in the First Decade of the 2000s: Family Politics and Assisted Reproduction Understood through the Concept of the Trickster

8. Bringing it All Back Home: Cross-Border Procreative Practices. Examples from Norway

9. Finland as a Late Regulator of Assisted Reproduction: A Permissive Policy under Debate

Part III: Religious Fundamentalism, Humanist Values, and State Dilemmas in an Era of Technological Monsters

10. Reframing Conception, Reproducing Society: Italian Paradoxes

11. The Veto of Moral Politics: The Catholic Church and ARTs in Ireland

12. Desiring Bodies: Problematizing the Matter of ARTs in Poland

13. Germany goes PGD: The Appeal to Women's and Human Rights Discourse in the Paradigmatic Amendment to the German Embryo Protection Act

14. Matters of Donation and Preserved Relations: Co-Construction of Egg Donation and Family Structures in Iran

Part IV: ARTs as Entangled in Demographic Agendas and Biopolitics

15. Babies from Behind Bars: Stratified Assisted Reproduction in Palestine/Israel

16. From Precarity to Self-Governance: Performing Motherhood through IVF Treatment in Ukraine

17. Russian Legislative Practices and Debates on the Restriction of Wide Access to ARTs

Part V: "New Normals" and their Discontents

18. Lesbian Kinship and ARTs in American Popular Culture: The L Word and The Kids Are All Right

19. Naturalization and Un-Naturalization: ARTs, Childlessness and Choice

20. Sperm Stories: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Sperm Donation and Sperm Banking in Denmark

21. Cellular Origins: A Visual Analysis of Time-Lapse Embryo Imaging