Books and chapters
I am a published author. I've written and contributed to publications about a range of cultural, social and political issues, including approaches to change in a digital world. Use the references below to access many of my publications.
Refereed books, chapters and edited collections
McDonald, L. (2011) Figuring Fertility: Poetics in the Cultural Practices of Reproductive Science. Post Pressed, Mount Gravatt, QLD. ISBN: 978-1-921214-83-7
'Figuring Fertility' creatively explores the reproductive practices of 'non-heterosexual' and queer bodies that make other bodies with scientific or privately negotiated fertility technologies. By presenting original interview narratives of people’s reproductive experiences, as well as discussions with fertility scientists and clinicians, this book renders generative and inventive reproductive practice, while reassessing current identity debates in critical theory, cultural studies, feminist and science philosophies. The book’s narrative basis highlights the complex and varied ways that fertility science can evoke affective and unpredictable directions in people’s lives. In doing so, the text critically proposes a posthumanities era of understanding human bodies, knowledge making and critique. Each section is an inspired attempt 'To tell … Of bodies … And love' in ways that dissuade common identity models and review the influence of science in contemporary fertility practices and cultural sense-making.
McDonald, L. (2018) ‘“Shooting the Filigreed Breeze”: Reconsidering Older Men’s Trust Relations in Digital Social Enterprise’ in E. O’Shea, L.J. Burton, P.A. Danaher (eds.) Social Capital and Enterprise in the Modern State. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165-179. ISBN: 978-3-319-68114-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-3-319-68115-3 (ebk) Available at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319681146
Doyle, J. and McDonald, L. (2016) ‘Making an Impact: Politics and Persuasions in 21st Century Higher Education’ in K. Trimmer (ed.) Political Pressures on Educational and Social Research: International Perspectives. UK & NY: Routledge, pp. 94-103. ISBN: 978-1-138-94712-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-67026-3 (ebk)
O’Shea, É. and McDonald, L. (2015) (eds.) Social Alternatives, ‘Civic Roles, Random Callings: Discerning the University Mission,’ vol 34. no. 2. Special Issue ISSN: 0155-0306 Available at: http://socialalternatives.com/issues/random-callings-discerning-university-mission
McDonald, L. (2005) ‘The Spell of the Cell: Molecular Reproduction and “the genetic imaginary”’ in E. Lorek-Jezinska and K. Wieckowska (eds.) Corporeal Inscriptions: Representations of the Body in Cultural and Literary Texts and Practices. Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, pp. 238-249. ISBN: 83-231-1812-4
Editorial work
As Associate Editor for Common Ground Publishing I reviewed publications for the following collections:
The Humanities Collection, 2015
The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies, 2015
The Social Sciences Collection, 2015
