Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend.
This volume reflects on the state of the art of ARTs. From feminist perspectives, the contributors focus on contemporary political debates triggered by ARTs. They examine the varying ways in which ARTs are interpreted and practised in different contexts, depending on religious, moral and political approaches. Assisted Reproduction Across Borders embeds feminist analysis of ARTs across a wide variety of countries and cultural contexts, discussing controversial practices such as surrogacy from the perspective of the global South as well as the global North as well as inequalities in terms of access to IVF.
This volume will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, film studies, media studies, literature, art history, area studies, and interdisciplinary areas such as gender studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.
Part I: ARTs in a Neoliberal World of Transnational Reproflows
1. Citizen, Subject, Property: Indian Surrogacy and the Global Fertility
Market
2. Fair Play in a Dirty Field? The Ethical Work of Commissioning Surrogacy in
India
3. "Families Like Wed Always Known"? Spanish Gay Fathers Normalization
Narratives in Transnational Surrogacy
4. Destination Spain: Negotiating Nationality and Fertility when Traveling
for Eggs
5. The South African Economy of Egg Donation: Looking at the BioEconomic Side
of Normalization
Part II: Perplexed State Regulations, Legal Inconsistencies and Cultural
Tricksters
6. Governing New Reproductive Technologies across Western Europe: The Gender
Dimension
7. Norwegian Biopolitics in the First Decade of the 2000s: Family Politics
and Assisted Reproduction Understood through the Concept of the Trickster
8. Bringing it All Back Home: Cross-Border Procreative Practices. Examples
from Norway
9. Finland as a Late Regulator of Assisted Reproduction: A Permissive Policy
under Debate
Part III: Religious Fundamentalism, Humanist Values, and State Dilemmas in an
Era of Technological Monsters
10. Reframing Conception, Reproducing Society: Italian Paradoxes
11. The Veto of Moral Politics: The Catholic Church and ARTs in Ireland
12. Desiring Bodies: Problematizing the Matter of ARTs in Poland
13. Germany goes PGD: The Appeal to Womens and Human Rights Discourse in the
Paradigmatic Amendment to the German Embryo Protection Act
14. Matters of Donation and Preserved Relations: Co-Construction of Egg
Donation and Family Structures in Iran
Part IV: ARTs as Entangled in Demographic Agendas and Biopolitics
15. Babies from Behind Bars: Stratified Assisted Reproduction in
Palestine/Israel
16. From Precarity to Self-Governance: Performing Motherhood through IVF
Treatment in Ukraine
17. Russian Legislative Practices and Debates on the Restriction of Wide
Access to ARTs
Part V: "New Normals" and their Discontents
18. Lesbian Kinship and ARTs in American Popular Culture: The L Word and The
Kids Are All Right
19. Naturalization and Un-Naturalization: ARTs, Childlessness and Choice
20. Sperm Stories: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Sperm Donation and Sperm
Banking in Denmark
21. Cellular Origins: A Visual Analysis of Time-Lapse Embryo Imaging
Merete Lie is Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and leader of the Centre for Gender Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, co-director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and director of InterGender International Research School, Sweden.
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