Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World

ISBN-13: 9781138840713 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 202 str.

Roisin Ryan Flood; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne

Opis

This book about 'third party conception' (gamete and embryo donation and surrogacy arrangements) will provide an original and timely contribution to work on assisted reproduction. Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family forms? Does the flow of people and gametes across borders present evidence of growing inequalities, the commodification of embodiment and capitalist exploitation; or is it an exciting development within contemporary kinship in a global world? These questions are presented in relation to research on the everyday realities of people whose lives are touched by third party conception - for example donor egg recipients, donor conceived people, and surrogate mothers. Drawing on contributions from leading scholars, this book presents an international range of work that unpacks some of the complexities generated by new technologies that may unravel popular understandings of family, self and identity.

O autorze

Jenny Gunnarsson Payne is Associate Professor of Ethnology at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden

Róisín Ryan-Flood is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK