The Substance of Sperm
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The Substance of Sperm. / Wahlberg, Ayo.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology. ed. / Cecilia Coale Van Hollen; Nayantara Appleton. London : Wiley, 2023. p. 317-331.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Substance of Sperm
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In this chapter, the author examines the ways in which anthropologists, sociologists, and science and technology studies scholars working in different parts of the world have ethnographically engaged with sperm as a substance. Carried out in different parts of the world, ethnographic research has shown how sperm as a substance indexes masculinity, vitality, and “strength,” both individually and collectively; has become commodified and exchangeable through the work of sperm banks; has led to complex negotiations of kinship; and acts as a sentinel of today's global environmental crisis. The making of technosemen has been undergirded by what can be thought of as technologies of assurance – a configuration of strategies and techniques within which certain persons, activities, objects and/or substances come to be vouched for over others.
AB - In this chapter, the author examines the ways in which anthropologists, sociologists, and science and technology studies scholars working in different parts of the world have ethnographically engaged with sperm as a substance. Carried out in different parts of the world, ethnographic research has shown how sperm as a substance indexes masculinity, vitality, and “strength,” both individually and collectively; has become commodified and exchangeable through the work of sperm banks; has led to complex negotiations of kinship; and acts as a sentinel of today's global environmental crisis. The making of technosemen has been undergirded by what can be thought of as technologies of assurance – a configuration of strategies and techniques within which certain persons, activities, objects and/or substances come to be vouched for over others.
U2 - 10.1002/9781119845379.ch18
DO - 10.1002/9781119845379.ch18
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781119845348
SP - 317
EP - 331
BT - A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology
A2 - Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale
A2 - Appleton, Nayantara
PB - Wiley
CY - London
ER -
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