Repronormativity in cisgender men's reasons why they would not use womb transplant technology to become pregnant

dc.contributor.authorMavuso, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-12T11:37:59Z
dc.date.available2023-07-12T11:37:59Z
dc.date.issued2023-02
dc.description.abstractMuch reproductive scholarship presumes that cisgender men do not wish to become pregnant. And within scholarly discussions on womb transplant technology in particular, cis men's desires to be pregnant are constructed as ‘insubstantial’, and cis men are positioned as neither desiring nor requiring womb transplant technology. Repronormativity, including the assumption that pregnancy and gestational desire are antithetical to cis masculinity/manhood, underpins both bodies of work. As part of a study that sought to visibilise, and analyse narratives of, cis men's desires to be pregnant and/or gestational parents, six cis men were asked whether they would use womb transplant technology to enable their pregnancy if womb transplant technology included men as recipients. The majority of participants said they would not do so, giving different reasons. Using a narrative-discursive approach to analyse their responses, I argue that their varied responses disrupt and re-circulate normative discourses on sex/gender, pregnancy, parenthood, and (assisted) reproduction. Ultimately, their varied reasons trouble the normative assumption that cis men do not want to be pregnant and would not take up the opportunity to do so, because they are men.en_US
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2023en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/soc4en_US
dc.identifier.citationMary-Jane Jace Mavuso, J. (2023). Repronormativity in cisgender men's reasons why they would not use womb transplant technology to become pregnant. Sociology Compass, 17(2), e13054. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13054.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1751-9020 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1111/soc4.13054
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/91375
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rights© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : Repronormativity in cisgender men's reasons why they would not use womb transplant technology to become pregnant. Sociology Compass, 17(2), e13054, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13054. The definite version is available at : https://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/soc4.en_US
dc.subjectCisgender menen_US
dc.subjectDiscoursesen_US
dc.subjectPregnancy decision-makingen_US
dc.subjectPregnancy desiresen_US
dc.subjectRepronormativityen_US
dc.subjectWomb transplant technologyen_US
dc.titleRepronormativity in cisgender men's reasons why they would not use womb transplant technology to become pregnanten_US
dc.typePreprint Articleen_US

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