Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour

Understanding Bioprecarity

Gabriele Griffin, Doris Leibetseder (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3856-9 (ISBN)

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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. -- .

How have rapid changes in biotechnologisation, for example around assisted reproductive technologies or (re)constructive surgery, effected those seeking help with fertility treatment or clitoral reconstruction? What is involved for queer people in making a family of their own, or for trans people to access the relevant surgery? This volume argues that contemporary cultures foster bioprecarity by categorizing groups of people in certain ways and/or by denying them access to the treatment they seek or need. Drawing on original empirical data with trans and queer people, but also other minoritised and racialized groups, this volume explores how bodily interventions, their regulation, and the intimate labour the interventions involve, create vulnerabilities. -- .

Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at Uppsala University Doris Leibetseder is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2019) at Uppsala University -- .

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
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	4 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-5261-3856-5 / 1526138565
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-3856-9 / 9781526138569
Zustand	Neuware