Essays about: "commercial surrogacy"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words commercial surrogacy.

  1. 6. Surrogacy and the best interest of the child

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Author : Anne Casparsson; [2014]
    Keywords : commercial surrogacy; altruistic surrogacy; best interest of the child; adoption;

    Abstract : If altruistic surrogacy should be legal in Sweden, laws concerning screening of the parents should be mandatory and adoption should be promoted as an alternative to surrogacy to a larger extent. Both in surrogacy and adoption the best interest of the child should be a priority, but parents regardless of sexuality, income and to some extent age, should qualify as long as they can prove their ability as parents. READ MORE

  3. 7. Commercialisation of the female body : As wombs become ‘stock-in- trade’

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Ida Wallerö; [2014]
    Keywords : India; feminist economics; problem representation; social policy; assisting reproductive technologies; surrogate motherhood; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study has focused on the approach of the Indian government with additional voices from women’s rights activist and researchers. The study has investigated how the surrogacy industry is approached and dealt with within the political economy sphere. READ MORE

  4. 8. Biopower and Precarity: Meeting Embodied Self in the Discourses of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Ukraine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Polina Vlasenko; [2013]
    Keywords : precarity; biopower; assisted reproductive technologies; ukraine; subjectivation; rationalities of government; normalization of motherhood; biological citizenship; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this thesis I examine the connection between female embodiment and subjectivation, technologization of reproduction and rationalities of government in Ukraine, where assisted reproductive technologies (ART) were introduced not so long ago, but have already become part of the lived experience of numerous women and heated a large debate in society about the nature of women, motherhood, national duty, citizenship and demographic crisis. Moreover, the study I accomplish is necessitated by the growing importance of Ukraine as a colonial market of cheap donor egg cells and as a target of transnational reproductive travel engendered by commercial surrogacy industry. READ MORE