Bodily interventions and intimate labour understanding bioprecarity
This volume is about the relationship between bodily interventions, intimate labour and bioprecarity. It considers how access to and regulations around different kinds of medical intervention create vulnerabilities, especially for minorities, racialized groups, queers and trans people
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester [UK]
Manchester University Press
2020, 2020©2020
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| Collection: | JSTOR Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction
- Gabriele Griffin and Doris Leibetseder; ; Part I: Theorizing bioprecarity and the body; 1 Intimate labour and bioprecarity
- Gabriele Griffin ; 2 Bioprecarity as categorical framing
- Doris Leibetseder; ; Part II: Precarity in the making of kin; 3 Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics
- Ulrika Dahl ; 4 Precarious bodily performances in queer and transgender reproduction with ART
- Doris Leibetseder; 5 Bioprecarity and pregnancy in lesbian kinship
- Petra Nordqvist; ; Part III: Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces ; 6 Precarious pregnancies and precious products: Transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand
- Elina Nilsson; 7 'It's just sperm. That's all you're giving.': Men's views of sperm donation
- Gabriele Griffin; 8 Bodily disrepair: Bioprecarity in the context of humanitarian surgical missions
- Nancy Worthington; ; Part IV: Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy; 9 Transgressing boundaries: Seeking help against intimate partner violence in lesbian and queer relationships
- Nicole Ovesen ; 10 Precarious subjectivities: Understanding the intimate labour involved in seeking clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting
- Malin Jordal; ; Part V: Bioprecarity and eugenicist histories; 11 'My body, my self': Indigeneity, bioprecarity and the construction of the embodied self
- an artist's view
- Katarina Pirak Sikku and Gabriele Griffin; 12 The intimate labour of non-normative bodies: Transgender patients in early Swedish medical research
- Julian Honkasalo; ; Conclusions
- Gabriele Griffin and Doris Leibetseder