Doing and undoing nation through ART: a Franco–American comparison

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Reprotech in France and the United States: Differences and similarities – an introduction

“…Hélène Malmanche also deploys her ethnographic and survey research to analyse tensions across Anglo American and French legal apparatuses in addressing the novel situations called forth by the use of ART ( Malmanche, 2020 ). Rajani Bhatia shows how national political borders create barriers and loopholes surrounding the fraught process of sex selection transnationally ( Bhatia, 2020 ), while Heather Jacobson explores the under-analysed topic of international commerce bringing non-US citizens into the USA for cross-border reproductive care ( Jacobson, 2020 ). The lack of both state and national data on this ‘baby-making trade’ suggests that few (besides feminist researchers!)…”