In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called "repatriation of anthropology" and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies. These interdisciplinary approaches have been further developed by increases in infertility, reproductive travel, and the emergence of critical movements among transnational adoptees, all of which have served to question how kinship is now practiced. Critical Kinship Studies brings together theoretical and disciplinary perspectives and analytically sensitive perspectives aiming to explore the manifold versions of kinship and the ways in which kinship norms are enforced or challenged. The Rowman and Littlefield International - Intersections series presents an overview of the latest research and emerging trends in some of the most dynamic areas of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences today. Critical Kinship Studies should be of particular interest to students and scholars in Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Medical Humanities, Politics, Gender and Queer Studies and Globalization.
Acknowledgements / Introduction: Critical Kinship Studies: Kinship (Trans)Formed , Charlotte Krolokke, Lene Myong, Stine W. Adrian, and Tine Tjornhoj-Thomsen / Part I: Kinship as Substance / 1. The Milk of Human Kinship: Donated Breast Milk in Neonatal Intensive Care, Katherine Carroll / 2. Mattering Kinship: Inheritance, Biology and Egg Donation, Between Genetics and Epigenetics, Jenny Gunnarsson Payne / 3. Keeping up Appearances: Resemblance Talk amongst Permanent and Foster Carers in Australia, Damien W. Riggs / 4."It's Not My Eggs, It Is Not My Husband's Sperm, It Is Not My Child": Surrogacy and "Not Doing Kinship" in Ghana, Trudie Gerrits / Part II: Kinship as Consumption / 5. Migrant Care and the Production of Fictive Kin, Antia Perez-Carames and Raquel Martinez-Bujan / 6. Feminist Global Motherhood: Representations of Single Mother Adoption in Swedish Media, Johanna Gondouin / 7. Documentaries on Transnational Surrogacy in India: Questions of Privilege, Respectability and Kinship, Karen Hvidtfeldt / 8. Family Re-imagined: Assisted Reproduction and Parenthood in Mozambique, Ines Faria / 9. ART in the Sun. Assembling Fertility Tourism in the Caribbean, Charlotte Krolokke / Part III: Kinship as Political Economy / 10. Towards a Political Economy of Egg Cell Donations: "Doing it the Israeli Way", Sigrid Vertommen / 11. Subversive Practices of Sperm Donation: Globalising Danish Sperm, Stine Willum Adrian / 12. The Risk of Relatedness: Governing Kinship in Swedish Transnational Adoption Policy, Malinda Andersson / 13. Real Versus Fictive Kinship: Legitimating the Adoptive Family, Kimberly McKee / Part IV: Kinship (Re)Imagined / 14. Re-imag(in)ing Life-Making, or Queering the Somatechnics of Reproductive Futurity, Nikki Sullivan and Sara Davidmann / 15. When Medicalisation is (Not) Needed. Single Women and Lesbian Couples' Choices of Transnational Donor Conception, Giulia Zanini / 16. I Never Knew: Adoptee Remigration to South Korea, Lene Myong / 17. Kinning Animals. Animals as Kin, Tine Tjornhoj-Thomsen / Index
