Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour

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