Birds & bees : how nature and kinship are mobilized to support nuclear family narratives on fertility clinic websites.

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dc.contributor.authorPender, Lisa Jane
dc.contributor.supervisorMitchell, Lisa Meryn
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-12T21:56:19Z
dc.date.available2008-11-12T21:56:19Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2008-11-12T21:56:19Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how fertility clinics engage in various textual and visual strategies to locate nature and kinship in the context of the assisted conception technologies they offer. In particular, competing paradigms of modern technology solving problems of the body versus the “naturalness” of having a baby means that fertility clinics must mobilize particular understandings of nature and technology to bridge this gap. Additionally, fertility clinics draw upon culturally meaningful themes such as “birds and bees” to structure relationships among assisted conception technology participants. I argue that fertility clinic websites are public sites of discourse through which clinics both attempt to attract potential clients and shape understanding of assisted conception technology by offering particular explanations as real and natural.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1252
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectHuman fertilityen_US
dc.subjectFertility clinicsen_US
dc.subjectReproductive technologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Anthropologyen_US
dc.titleBirds & bees : how nature and kinship are mobilized to support nuclear family narratives on fertility clinic websites.en_US
dc.title.alternativeBirds and bees : how nature and kinship are mobilized to support nuclear family narratives on fertility clinic websites.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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