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Lesbians and reproductive healthcare
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Ryan-Flood, Róisín |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | This chapter explores the implications of choosing to parent outside heteronormative parameters. Drawing on interviews with 68 lesbian parents in Sweden and Ireland, the practical challenges facing lesbians embarking on parenthood are examined. Lesbians faced numerous difficulties in accessing reproductive health care services. They often struggled to find a known donor and only those with sufficient financial resources could travel abroad for donor insemination at a clinic. The transnational networks that develop for lesbians seeking fertility services abroad are explored. It is argued that prevailing theories of sexual citizenship fail to take sufficient account of gender in relation to biopolitics.Lesbians faced numerous difficulties in accessing reproductive health care services. It has meant that local health boards have been forced to acknowledge that lesbian sexuality is not incompatible with parenthood. Drawing on interviews with 68 lesbian parents in Sweden and Ireland, the practical challenges facing lesbians embarking on parenthood are examined. In such situations of inequitable sexual citizenship, lesbians may find creative ways of accessing assisted reproduction. The law was also later changed to allow lesbians to access assisted reproduction services in Sweden,4 although these changes were not in place at the time of fieldwork. Lesbian parenthood has had a far lower profile in Ireland, where the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has traditionally been left to the discretion of medical practitioners. It was not an easy path for participants and they already faced considerable monitoring of their sexuality in using the services. Book Name: Transnationalising Reproduction |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2014-0-33470-9&isbn=9781315732695&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 173 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 162 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315732695-12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-06-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Transnationalising Reproduction Cultural Studies Ireland Parenthood Sweden Reproductive Lesbian Parents Practical Challenges Facing Lesbians Embarking |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
