[PDF] Brown Bodies White Babies eBook

Author : Laura Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781479843589

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Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. While the potential of reproductive technologies is far from pre-determined, the ways in which these technologies are currently deployed often serve the interests of dominant groups, through the creation of white, middle-class, heteronormative families. Laura Harrison, providing an important understanding of the work of women of color as surrogates, connects this labor to the history of racialized reproduction in the United States. Cross-racial surrogacy is one end of a continuum in which dominant groups rely on the reproductive potential of nonwhite women, whose own reproductive desires have been historically thwarted and even demonized. Brown Bodies, White Babies provides am interdisciplinary analysis that includes legal cases of contested surrogacy, historical examples of surrogacy as a form of racialized reproductive labor, the role of genetics in the assisted reproduction industry, and the recent turn toward reproductive tourism. Joining the ongoing feminist debates surrounding reproduction, motherhood, race, and the body, Brown Bodies, White Babies ultimately critiques the new potentials for parenthood that put the very contours of kinship into question.

Author : Laura Harrison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 147987308X

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Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. While the potential of reproductive technologies is far from pre-determined, the ways in which these technologies are currently deployed often serve the interests of dominant groups, through the creation of white, middle-class, heteronormative families. Laura Harrison, providing an important understanding of the work of women of color as surrogates, connects this labor to the history of racialized reproduction in the United States. Cross-racial surrogacy is one end of a continuum in which dominant groups rely on the reproductive potential of nonwhite women, whose own reproductive desires have been historically thwarted and even demonized. Brown Bodies, White Babies provides am interdisciplinary analysis that includes legal cases of contested surrogacy, historical examples of surrogacy as a form of racialized reproductive labor, the role of genetics in the assisted reproduction industry, and the recent turn toward reproductive tourism. Joining the ongoing feminist debates surrounding reproduction, motherhood, race, and the body, Brown Bodies, White Babies ultimately critiques the new potentials for parenthood that put the very contours of kinship into question.

Author : Laura Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Surrogate mothers
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This dissertation examines what I call "crossracial gestational surrogacy," a practice in which a gestational surrogate is impregnated through in vitro fertilization using the egg and sperm of prospective parents and/or donors of another race. The surrogate is not biologically related to the fetus, and I argue that her racial difference serves the interests of the intended parents. The phenomenon of crossracial gestational surrogacy is closely tied to the global expansion of the reproductive technology industry. With the use of reproductive technologies, the traditional maternal body no longer exists as the sole site of reproductive labor - both egg and sperm can be purchased, and even the literal labor of pregnancy operates as an available commodity. As a result, motherhood is separated into biological, gestational, and social components, creating new potentials for parenthood that put the very contours of kinship into question. This interdisciplinary, feminist project treats surrogacy as a cultural site that reflects the evolution of and contestation over ideological constructs that are central organizing principles in our society, including race, gender, and kinship. These constructs evolve in response to social change, including technological and scientific advancement, yet are not determined by biological or scientific "truths." Instead they take form through interaction between scientific and popular discourses. This multi-sited analysis includes legal cases of contested surrogacy, media representations, historicized examples of surrogacy as a form of racialized reproductive labor, and the recent turn toward reproductive tourism and the "outsourcing" of surrogacy in a transnational framework. In crossracial gestational surrogacy arrangements, intended parents rely upon the racialized reproductive labor of women of color, employing scientific narratives about genetic determinism to normalize this intimate crossracial contact. Meanwhile, they juggle the competing message that twenty-first century America is "postracial," or has moved beyond racial hierarchies and discrimination, with the deeply entrenched belief that races are biologically discrete, natural entities. Crossracial gestational surrogacy lays bare these coexisting and competing claims, and reveals the ways in which assisted reproductive technologies manifest deeply-seated yet ever evolving ideologies of family, femininity, and difference.

Author : Laura Harrison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1479894869

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Focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman--through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors--carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Concentrating on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, Harrison is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. She provides an interdisciplinary analysis that includes legal cases of contested surrogacy, historical examples of surrogacy as a form of racialized reproductive labor, the role of genetics in the assisted reproduction industry, and the recent turn toward reproductive tourism. --From publisher description.

Author : Tara L. Kuther
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1071851756

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Award-winning author Tara Kuther presents Lifespan Development in Context, Second Edition, a topically oriented edition of her bestselling text that provides a panoramic view of the many influences that shape human development. Kuther′s student-friendly narrative illustrates how the places, sociocultural environments, and ways in which we are raised influence who we become and how we grow and change throughout our lives. Three core themes resonate throughout each chapter and across each developmental domain and topic: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science. Foundational theories and classic studies are woven together with contemporary research and culturally diverse perspectives for a full, updated introduction to the field that is both comprehensive and concise. Case studies, real-world applications, and video examples ignite critical thinking and class discussion, ensuring students have the tools they need to apply course concepts to their lives and future careers.

Author : Diane M. Tober
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2024-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040118534

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What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys egg donors embark upon as suppliers of valuable commodities, this book reveals uncomfortable realities at the heart of the industry. Donors — and the eggs they provide — are absolutely essential to helping others create the families of their dreams. But not all clinics treat their donors as well as their paying patients, and many donors suffer as a result. Technological innovations allow the egg donation industry to expand, fueling the private equity incursion into fertility medicine, turning once-private clinics into highly profitable, multinational conglomerates. Drawing upon international anthropological fieldwork, Eggonomics reveals the clinical spaces where egg donor’s bodies are tested, prodded, and poked for ever-increasing sums of profit, eugenic forces drive donor selection, and the unrelenting pressures of global capitalism threaten medicine’s prime directive of ‘do no harm.’ Timely, meticulously researched, and written with surgical precision, Eggonomics is a crucial read for researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and anyone considering becoming or using an egg donor.

Author : Ellen Malenas Ledoux
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813950295

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Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers. Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.

Author : Laura Lazzari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030774074

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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.

Author : Tara L. Kuther
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1071851926

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With a chronological organization, Lifespan Development: Lives in Context, Third Edition follows three core themes: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science. Tara L. Kuther’s clear, concise narrative guides students through current and classic studies and foundational theories while exploring real-world connections and inclusive perspectives.

Author : Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478003286

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In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive body, biocapitalism is dependent upon what Weinbaum calls the slave episteme—the racial logic that drove four centuries of slave breeding in the Americas and Caribbean. Weinbaum outlines how the slave episteme shapes the practice of reproduction today, especially through use of biotechnology and surrogacy. Engaging with a broad set of texts, from Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia Butler's dystopian speculative fiction to black Marxism, histories of slavery, and legal cases involving surrogacy, Weinbaum shows how black feminist contributions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s constitute a powerful philosophy of history—one that provides the means through which to understand how reproductive slavery haunts the present.