Sperm Wars

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These are pivotal times for reproduction. Making babies is big business, and there are now almost as many ways to create a family as there are different sorts of family to create. At the centre of all this hubbub is sperm. And as with any desirable property, questions about who can get it and on what terms are hotly contested. Add in the current cultural anxieties about changing family structures and the role of fathers, and you have a potent recipe for conflict. Who has the right to use sperm What makes a father Is it sperm or changing nappies Should donors be allowed to decide who can have their gametes Where do the rights of children fit in What role should government play in the new reproductive technologies In this crucial new collection, Heather Grace Jones and Maggie Kirkman have invited contributors from every angle of the sperm debate to have their say on these and many other questions. The breadth of perspectives not only makes for compelling reading; it demonstrates that, as the Sperm Wars range from defensive skirmishes and battles over territory to bloody ideological crusades, we are all potential combatants.

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Heather Grace Jones is a journalist, community worker and writer. She is the co-editor of Always a Part of Me: Surviving childbearing loss. Dr Maggie Kirkman is an academic psychologist who is researching donor-assisted conception at the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society at the University of Melbourne. She is the co-editor of The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of Reproduction.