Rene Almeling

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  • GUYnecology
  • Sex Cells
  • Surveys
  • Teaching
  • Conference
  • Media
  • CV
  • Contact
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​GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health
University of California Press (2020)

​For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women’s reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men’s health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences?

Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men’s reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men’s age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today.
Visit the publisher's website (here) to read the first 15 pages, review the table of contents, and recommend your library buy it. ​​
Awards
Adele E. Clarke Book Award, ReproNetwork
Distinguished Book Award (Honorable Mention), American Sociological Association's Sex and Gender Section

From the back cover...


"A forceful challenge to the supposition that reproductive health is a woman's domain. This sophisticated multilevel study of how knowledge is made—and not made—about men's reproductive health sets a new agenda for research on gender in medical knowledge."--Sarah Richardson, author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

"Professor Almeling carefully documents historic neglect of male reproductive health issues by medical science and the media, and the consequent gaps in how the public understands the connection between a father's health and birth outcomes. A must-read for forward thinkers in the reproductive health community."--Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, President Emerita, March of Dimes

"It takes exceptional skill to account for an absence. In this fascinating investigation, Rene Almeling reveals how the science of men's reproductive health has gone missing in action—and shows just how much that vacuum of knowledge matters, for the lives of people of all genders."--Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research and Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
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Interviews and Podcasts
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Q&A with Tim Sullivan, executive director of University of California Press:

"The Future of Health," Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival

"Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics" A Conversation with Sarah Richardson and Natali Valdez for Signs

"Why men's reproductive health matters" Yale News

"Why isn't there more research on male infertility?" Fertility Podcast 

"Rene Almeling's new book GUYnecology" New Books Network

Q&A with Laure Andrillon in Libération 
[in French]

Q&A with Manuela Sanoja in El País
[in Spanish]
Reviews of GUYnecology

"It's time to take the penis off the pedestal." Scientific American

"What science can tell us about manliness." Times Literary Supplement

"How defining women as baby-makers backfired spectacularly." New Scientist

"What about men's reproductive health?" Nursing Clio

Alya Guseva, American Journal of Sociology 

Katrina Kimport, Contemporary Sociology

Abigail T. Brooks, Gender & Society

Robert Pralat, Social Forces

Emily Wentzell, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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Georgia Grainger, Social History of Medicine

Anna Chatillon, Men and Masculinities

Joe Strong, New Genetics and Society
Essays

Almeling 2021. "The surprising gap in knowledge about men's reproductive health." Washington Post

Almeling 2020. "What if men thought about their sperm like women think about their eggs?" Elle 

Richardson and Almeling 2016. “The CDC risks its credibility with new pregnancy guidelines.” Boston Globe
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Related research articles

Almeling and Mohr, co-editors (2020). Double special issue on "Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction" in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies

Almeling 2015. “Reproduction.” Annual Review of Sociology

Almeling and Waggoner 2013. “More and Less than Equal: How Men Figure in the Reproductive Equation.” Gender & Society

Contact

​Mail 
Yale Sociology
PO Box 208265
New Haven, CT  06520
​Phone
203.432.3340
Twitter
@ralmeling
Email
rene.almeling (at) yale (dot) edu