The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice : a New Scandinavian Ice Age.

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Intro; The Cryopolitics of Reproductionon Ice; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Scandinavian Legal Cryo Landscapes; 2. The Scandinavian Welfare States; 3. Freeze and Re-Animate. A Cryopolitical Framework; 4. Reproductive Imaginaries and Methodological Entanglements; 5. Chapter Overview; Chapter 2: Disease: On the Use of Freezing on Medical Indication; Chapter 3: Delay: On the Use of Freezing for Non-medical Reasons; Chapter 4: Death and Destruction; Chapter 5: Disturb; Conclusion; Chapter 1: The Market in Ice; 1. Introduction

2. The Legal Framework2.1. The Development of Private Cryopreserved Sperm Banking in Scandinavia Up To 1997; 2.2. Challenging Heteronormativity Through the Market; 2.3. From "Business-to-Business" to "Business-to-Consumer": Danish Cryo-sperm Goes Global; 2.4. The Story of Why the Cold North Kept the Eggs at Home; 3. Theorizing the Market in Ice; 4. Imaginaries of Travelling Sperm; 4.1. Nature and Safety; 4.2. Kinship and the Best Interests of the Child; 4.3. Commercialization; 5. Imaginaries of Domesticated Eggs; 5.1. Nature and Safety; 5.2. Kinship and the Best Interests of the Child

5.3. Commercialization6. Summary; Chapter 2: Disease: On the Use of Freezing on Medical Indication; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Disease; 4. Imaginaries of Medical Freezing; 4.1. Imaginaries of Progress and Possibility; 4.2. Medical Freezing and the New Regime of Risk Prediction and Management; 4.3. Cryo-insurance and the Imaginary of Reproductive Futurity; 4.4. Imaginaries of "Normal" Womanhood and "Potent" Masculinity; 5. Summary; Chapter 3: Delay: On the Use of Freezing for Non-Medical Reasons; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Delay

4. Imaginaries on Freezing for Non-Medical Reasons4.1. Imaginaries of Reproductive Autonomy; 4.1.1. Egg Freezing as a Tool to Strengthen Women's Individual Autonomy.; 4.1.2. Delay as Socio-cultural Coercion and Market Exploitation.; 4.2. Imaginaries of Rightly Timed Kinship; 4.2.1. Kinship Temporalities and the Best Interests of the Child.; 4.2.2. Kinship Temporalities and the Best Interests of (Older) Women.; 5. Summary; Chapter 4: Death and Destruction; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Death and Destruction; 4. Imaginaries of Death and Destruction

4.1. Dr Frankenstein's Monstrous Technologies4.2. When Death No Longer Does Us Part. Imaginaries of Families Forever; 4.2.1. From the Deposit with Love.; 4.2.2. Latent Siblings, Liminal Life.; 5. Summary; Chapter 5: Disturb; 1. Introduction; 2. The Legal Framework; 3. Theorizing Disturbance; 4. Imaginaries of Disturbance; 4.1. Disturbances of Reproductive Time -- Old Mothers; 4.2. Disturbing the Generational Kinship Order; 4.3. Disturbing Gendered Reproductive Categories; 4.3.1. From Sickness to Reproductive Citizenship in the Welfare State?

4.3.2. Where Is the Mother? Troubling Reproductive Categorization.

Reproduction has entered a new ice age. Using cryopolitics as an interdisciplinary framework to help understand the contemporary state of cryo-fertility, this book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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