num_pages: 402
description: Extensive social science research particularly by anthropologists has explored womens reproductive lives their use of reproductive technologies and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile few if any volumes have explored mens reproductive concerns or contributions to womens reproductive Men are clearly viewed as the second sex in reproduction. This volume argues that the marginalization of men is an oversight of considerable proportions. It sheds new light on male reproduction from a cross-cultural global perspective focusing not only upon men in Europe and America but also those in the Middle East Asia and Latin America. Both heterosexual and homosexual married and unmarried men are featured in this volume which assesses concerns ranging from masculinity and sexuality to childbirth and fatherhood.
language: English
title: Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
publisher: Berghahn Books