Essays about: "transnational motherhood"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words transnational motherhood.

1. 6. 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

3. 7. The Italian-Ukrainian Care Chain: Transnational Welfare, Transnational Families and Care Drain

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

   Author : Viktoriia Mudrak; [2011]
   Keywords : Ukraine; Italy; global care chain; transnational welfare; transnational families; care drain; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The thesis is devoted to the analysis of the care chain between Italy and Ukraine, which is a highly feminised and multi-sided phenomenon. The focus is kept on such aspects as organisation of transnational welfare, transnational families and care drain in Ukraine. READ MORE