ABSTRACT
As Chapter 5 indicates, I have shared Jeanettte Winterson’s concern with the
making of babies in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our
common interest also extends to the development of new reproductive tech-
nologies during this period. More specifically, I have been intrigued by the
stories told about these technologies and the attention they have garnered in
the mass media in many Western countries during this period. This chapter
pursues that interest from where I left off in Chapter 5 through an investi-
gation of the development of mass media stories around and about this
technoscience that have emerged in many Western countries since the mid-
1980s.
