Essays about: "transnational commercial surrogacy"

Found 2 essays containing the words transnational commercial surrogacy.

  1. 1. Merit Making, Money and Motherhood : Women's Experiences of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Elina Nilsson; [2015]
    Keywords : transnational commercial surrogacy; Thailand; motherhood; intimate labor; stratified reproduction; surrogatmödraskap; Thailand; moderskap; intimt arbete; stratifierad reproduktion;

    Abstract : This thesis explores transnational commercial surrogacy in the context of Thailand, with the specific purpose to examine Thai women’s motives and experiences of being a surrogate mother. The study is based on two months of fieldwork in Bangkok between June and August 2014 during which interviews were conducted with eleven former, current or future surrogate mothers. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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