The Reproductive Body at Work

Namberger, Verena

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“…By demonstrating how different cultural and regulatory contexts intersect with donor selection and egg donors’ embodied experiences, we contribute to anthropological discussions surrounding biocitizenship, power, and agency (Pande and Moll, 2018). As have other authors, we have focused on the practices of egg donation in different cultural settings to explore how bioeconomies capitalize on economic inequalities and phenotypic stratification (Daniels and Forsythe, 2012; Deomampo, 2019; Namberger, 2019; Perler and Schurr, 2021; Tober and Kroløkke, 2021). Fertility patients using donor eggs tend to be affluent and predominantly lighter‐skinned people from around the globe (Keehn et al., 2015; Speier, 2016; Whittaker and Speier, 2010).…”

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Eggonomics: Vitrification and bioeconomies of egg donation in the United States and Spain

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Regulations governing assisted reproduction control the degree to which gamete donation is legal and how people providing genetic material are selected and compensated. The United States and Spain are both global leaders in fertility treatment with donor oocytes. Yet both countries take different approaches to how egg donation is regulated. The US model reveals a hierarchically organized form of gendered eugenics. In Spain, the eugenic aspects of donor selection are more subtle. Drawing upon fieldwork in the United States and Spain, this article examines (1) how compensated egg donation operates under two regulatory settings, (2) the implications for egg donors as providers of bioproducts, and (3) how advances in oocyte vitrification enhances the commodity quality of human eggs. By comparing these two reproductive bioeconomies we gain insight into how different cultural, medical, and ethical frameworks intersect with egg donor embodied experiences.

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Eggonomics: Vitrification and bioeconomies of egg donation in the United States and Spain

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“…Many, if not most, sociologists work in and across multiple disciplines. However, titles such as “medical sociologist,” “gender scholar,” and “Marxist” are used quite frequently, despite the reality that much can be gained from applying a Marxist perspective to gender in medical institutions (Namberger 2019). Even job advertisements that are open specialty frequently call for someone who does criminology or gender or environmental work, but rarely someone who does criminology and gender and environmental work.…”

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Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular

Beck

2024

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The elevation of one‐ness and the singular is a social pattern that can be identified across domains and contexts. I call this phenomenon mononormativity and define it as the normativity of “one‐ness” and “singularity” in contemporary U.S. society. Social pattern analysis is used to demonstrate how conventions of social marking can reveal previously unexplored patterns across seemingly unrelated institutions, identities, and relationships to show that mononormativity reflects the very basic ideals of how society is organized. This article takes what has been taken for granted and baked into the social mindscape and foregrounds what has previously been unexplored.

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“…, commercial surrogacy in India(Pande 2014;Rudrappa 2015;Vora 2015;Deomampo 2016;Majumdar 2017;Parry 2018) and Mexico(Schurr 2017), IVF in Ecuador (E. Roberts 2012), transnational egg donation and ARTs in Israel/Palestine(Nahman 2013;Moreno 2016;Vertommen 2017) and South Africa(Namberger 2019;Moll 2019), transnational adoption in the United States and Central America(Briggs 2012;Posocco 2014) stands out for its attention to the material and discursive (dis)continuities with colonial modes of reproduction. Further STS scholarship on race and ARTs has addressed the impact of imperial and colonial regimes of power on shifting notions of race that are threaded in and through the production, distribution, and consumption of ARTs, for example, in the marketized selection of egg cell providers and surrogates in the fertility industry, and the racialized imaginaries of national belonging, racial purity, and | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8 entails(Nahman 2006;Cromer 2019;Newman 2019;Valdez and Deomampo 2019;Falu 2021).…”

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Introduction: Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

2022

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The introduction to the Special Section “Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies” (re)situates assisted reproductive technologies, infrastructures, and markets within older, yet ongoing, histories of colonialism, racial capitalism, and slavery. Engaging with the “colonial present” of a broad array of reproductive technologies, including surrogacy, adoption, seed saving, “slave breeding,” and in vitro fertilization in different (post)colonial sites of inquiry, including India, Korea, Australia, the United States, and the borderlands between Mexico and Guatemala, the papers in this collection draw on the foundational work of materialist, STS, Black, Indigenous, and decolonial feminists to foreground three main “relational” themes: (1) between past and present colonial materializations and imaginaries of ARTs; (2) between colonialism’s myriad, intraconnected reproductive grammars of slavery, genocide, conservation, exploitation, and extraction; (3) between ART’s life and death functions and their mutually constitutive biopolitical and necropolitical logics.

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The Reproductive Body at Work

Cited by 14 publications

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Eggonomics: Vitrification and bioeconomies of egg donation in the United States and Spain

Eggonomics: Vitrification and bioeconomies of egg donation in the United States and Spain

Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular

Introduction: Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

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