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This volume is about the relationship between bodily interventions, intimate labour and bioprecarity. It considers how access to and regulations around different kinds of medical intervention create vulnerabilities, especially for minorities, racialized groups, queers and trans people.
List of contents
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
Index
About the author
Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at Uppsala University
Doris Leibetseder is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2019) at Uppsala University
Summary
This volume is about the relationship between bodily interventions, intimate labour and bioprecarity. It considers how access to and regulations around different kinds of medical intervention create vulnerabilities, especially for minorities, racialized groups, queers and trans people. -- .
