Reproductive Citizenship

This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of reproductive citizenship in relation to decision-making about a range of issues: from fertility preservation and the desirability of family creation as a normative expectation of social participation, to how families manage and negotiate engagement with providers of reproductive materials and services around information disclosure and contact, and how they consider their social obligations and responsibilities in relation to the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Rhonda M. Shaw is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include the sociology of morality and ethics, family life and intimate relationships, and empirical research on the donation and provision of human biological materials and services. Rhonda is the editor of Bioethics Beyond Altruism: Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials (2017).