{"id":205,"date":"2007-08-16T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-08-16T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T14:39:00","slug":"sperms-meaning-is-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/08\/16\/sperms-meaning-is-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm&#8217;s Meaning Is Fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RsRUAg9NQfI\/AAAAAAAAARg\/9CLjlDh8tHc\/s1600-h\/61GH88NX0YL._AA240_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RsRUAg9NQfI\/AAAAAAAAARg\/9CLjlDh8tHc\/s200\/61GH88NX0YL._AA240_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>So I&#8217;ve just started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sperm-Counts-Overcome-Precious-Fluid\/dp\/0814757189\"><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic\">Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man&#8217;s Most Precious Fluid<\/span><\/a> by feminist sociologist (and lesbian mother of two) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.csi.cuny.edu\/~sasw\/moore.htm\">Lisa Jean Moore<\/a> and I tell ya, someone over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyupress.org\/\">NYU Press<\/a> had a wee bit of fun writing her flap copy.  &#8220;Moore offers a penetrating exploration&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Sperm Counts examines the many places sperm rears its head.&#8221; And of course, the subtitle.  But my favorite is the fact that there is a drawing of a squiggly little sperm positioned at a slightly different spot on every single page and if you flip through the book real fast, the sperm seems to swim.    Try it.  It&#8217;s fun.  <\/p>\n<p>On the serious side, this looks like an incredibly well-researched and captivating read.  Moore looks at children&#8217;s birds-and-bees books, forensic transcripts, porn, and sperm bank brochures to offer this biography qua cultural history of modern-day sperm.  Check out Thomas Rogers&#8217; seminal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2007\/07\/18\/sperm\/\">interview with Moore over on Salon<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve got a suggestion for the sequel: <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Egg Matters<\/span>.  More to come.  Ok ok, I&#8217;ll stop while I&#8217;m a<span style=\"font-style:italic\">head<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve just started reading Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man&#8217;s Most Precious Fluid by feminist sociologist (and lesbian mother of two) Lisa Jean Moore and I tell ya, someone over at NYU Press had a wee bit of fun writing her flap copy. &#8220;Moore offers a penetrating exploration&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Sperm Counts examines the many places sperm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,876],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}