Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title |
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... analysis of their materials and donor catalogues.3As a result, I found myself asked to be on local radio programs and even landed a BBC television interview—about which my conservative and often professionally skeptical father said, “I ...
... analysis explores how semen maintains a “fluidity of meaning,” both literally and metaphorically, in the arenas of science, popular culture, criminal justice, and the reproductive marketplace. In fact, recent developments in each of ...
... analysis). As with its variety of names, sperm's meaning, like the substance itself, is fluid. Yet however numerous the meanings, all sperm originates in the male body. As such, our prevailing ideas about men and masculinity are used to ...
... analysis reveals how “sticky” or messy and complex masculinity is in the 21st century. I see sperm as a metaphor for contemporary masculinity: it is both valorized and reviled, representative of life and death. Yet despite its “fluid ...
... analysis focuses on the hugely popular television franchise of sex crime entertainment and the cottage industry of mail-order DNA testing. In contrast to semen banks, which use sperm to represent an ideal man or “Mr. Right,” television ...
Contents
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The Money Shot in Pornography and Prostitution | 71 |
Sperm Banks and the Crisis of Fatherhood | 92 |
Semen as Evidence | 121 |
The Future of Sperm | 147 |