Reconceiving the Second Sex

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the past-president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of six books on the subject.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. The Missing Gamete? Ten Common Mistakes or Lies about Men’s Sexual DestinyMatthew C. GutmannChapter 2. Killer Sperm: Masculinity and the Essence of Male HierarchiesLisa Jean MooreChapter 3. Gender, Masculinity, and Reproduction: Anthropological PerspectivesMatthew R. Dudgeon and Marcia C. InhornChapter 4. Men's Influences on Women's Reproductive Health: Medical Anthropological PerspectivesMatthew R. Dudgeon and Marcia C. InhornChapter 5. Manhood and Meaning in the Marketing of the “Male Pill”Laury OaksChapter 6. Reproductive Paradoxes in Vietnam: Masculinity, Contraception, and Abortion in VietnamNguyen Thi Thuy HanhChapter 7. Reproductive Politics in Southwest China: Deconstructing a Minority Male-dominated Perspective on ReproductionYen Fang TzuChapter 8. The Sex in the Sperm: Male Infertility and its Challenges to Masculinity in an Israeli-Jewish ContextHelene GoldbergChapter 9. “It’s a bit unmanly in a way”: Men and Infertility in DenmarkTine Tjørnhøj-ThomsenChapter 10. Male Genital Cutting: Masculinity, Reproduction, and Male Infertility Surgeries in Egypt and LebanonMarcia C. InhornChapter 11. "We are pregnant": Israeli Men and the Paradoxes of SharingTsipy IvryChapter 12. Making Room for Daddy: Men’s "Belly Talk" in the Contemporary United StatesSallie HanChapter 13. Husband-assisted Birth among the Rarámuri of Northern MexicoJanneli F. MillerChapter 14. Stories of Fatherhood: Kinship in the MakingMaruska la Cour MosegaardNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

2010 MOST NOTABLE RECENT COLLECTION PRIZE. AWARDED BY THE COUNCIL ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND REPRODUCTION.“These researchers hail from four continents, thus providing a cross-cultural perspective as they give voice to men's experiences in the process of reproduction. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches, including content analysis, participant observation, in-depth interviewing, reproductive history intakes, and survey questionnaires. The result is a comprehensive, engaging volume that will certainly trigger additional interest and research in this heretofore ignored aspect of men's lives. Highly recommended.” • Choice“Overall, there is a well-balanced mix of ethnography and theory that engages the reader throughout the volume…[The book] is successful in challenging assumptions and stereotypes surrounding men’s involvement in reproduction and demonstrating that the topic of men and reproduction has been neglected by social scientific study thus far…[and] represents an important initial text on a subject deserving of further attention in the social sciences.” • The Journal of Biosocial Science“The chapters in this volume demonstrate the vast variety of ways men across the globe intersect with reproduction… In the Introduction, the editors highlighted the absence of men’s reproductive lives from social science research. In this volume they do much to bring men back in to the reproductive spotlight.” • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychologyldquo;Whilst anthropologists acknowledge men’s sexuality, we tend to view men as disengaged from reproduction, and to see their power as lying elsewhere in social life. This  exceptionally well edited collection of fourteen stimulating essays attempts to redress this imbalance, by analyzing men’s complex, varied, and ever-changing reproductive lives…the collection offers an excellent starting-point for a potentially rewarding intellectual endeavour.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“The book is logically structured, clearly organised and well presented. The breadth and depth of insight provided ensures that it covers all key areas of debates in relation to infertility, reproduction and the links to men and masculinities. In addition, the range of geographical regions that the studies are drawn from ensures that nuanced consideration is given to how localised cultural discourses intersect with gendered conceptualisations of reproductive techniques in a global context.” • Sociology of Health and Illness“…an overdue first step in recognizing that men’s role in contemporary human reproduction – from their gametes to their psyches – has been a neglected realm of scientific and scholarly pursuit.” • Robert D. Nachtigall, M.D., Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco