Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies Laila Halaby Wallace Stegner portrays more than

Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth century

without the characteristic patterns of behavior and introspection that are manifested as plans

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Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies Laila Halaby Wallace Stegner portrays more thanAuthor Contributor(s): Thompson, Charis Publisher: The MIT Press Date: 1 26 2007 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She