Anthropological Quarterly, April 1st, 2007
Janet Carsten, After Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 230 pp. In 1995, in Nottinghamshire, England, Diane Blood is involved in a dispute with British regulatory agencies and the courts over her efforts to conceive a child with sperm obtained from her dying husband without his prior written consent. In Israel, in the 1990s, the orthodox rabbinate debate how and from whom sperm for artificial insemination may be obtained, what is the relationship between a sperm donor and a child conceived with his sperm, and what is the status of a child so conceived. In Scotland, in 1993,...
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