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Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights difference and diversity in relation to contemporary reproductive choices. The book focuses on women's and men's experiences of agency, control and negotiation within the context of cultural, medical, political, theoretical and lay ideologies of the reproductive process in contemporary Western societies.

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SARAH EARLE is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at University College Northampton. She has published widely on women's reproductive health and is Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Hunam Reproduction Study Group. She has also published on the sociology of disability, sexuality, and health care education. She is co-editor of the forthcoming text An Introduction to the Sociology of Health: A Textbook for Nurses, and co-author of Punters in Cyberspace: Men Who Pay for Sex. - GAYLE LETHERBY is Associate Head of Subject and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Justice, Coventry University, UK. She has published widely in the areas of reproductive identity and experience, motherhood and non-motherhood, working and learning in higher education and feminist research and epistemology. Recent publications include Feminist Research in Theory and Practice (2003).

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