Artificial Insemination and the American Man
Artificial Insemination and the American Man
This chapter examines the discussions of artificial insemination in American medical journals throughout the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, artificial insemination as a treatment for marital infertility was becoming increasingly available to American couples. The chapter describes how artificial insemination reinforced postwar gender ideology and undermined the structural framework of the American family, and examines the challenges to the legal, social, moral, and familial legitimacy of this procedure.
Keywords: artificial insemination, marital infertility, infertility, insemination, gender ideology
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