Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour
Understanding Bioprecarity
1st Edition
Published on 11. February 2020
256 pages
978-1-5261-3857-6 (ISBN)
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Description
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. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-3857-6 (9781526138576)
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Gabriele Griffin | Doris Leibetseder
Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour
Understanding Bioprecarity
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02/2020
Manchester University Press
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Content
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Theorizing bioprecarity and the body
- Intimate labour and bioprecarity
- Bioprecarity as categorical framing
- Part II Precarity in the making of kin
- Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics
- Precarious bodily performances in queer and transgender reproduction with ART
- Bioprecarity and pregnancy in lesbian kinship
- Part III Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces
- Precarious pregnancies and precious products: Transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand
- 'It's just sperm. That's all you're giving': Men's views of sperm donation
- Bodily disrepair: Bioprecarity in the context of humanitarian surgical missions
- Part IV Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy
- Transgressing boundaries: Seeking help against intimate partner violence in lesbian and queer relationships
- Precarious subjectivities: Understanding the intimate labour involved in seeking clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting
- Part V Bioprecarity and eugenicist histories
- 'My body, my self': Indigeneity, bioprecarity and the construction of the embodied self - an artist's view
- The intimate labour of non-normative bodies: Transgender patients in early Swedish medical research
- Conclusions
- Index
