Blood Is Thicker than Water: Policing Donor Insemination and the Reproduction of Whiteness

Quiroga, Seline Szkupinski

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb00986.x

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“…‘Medical practices reflect cultural values’, so it is no surprise that medicalisation, a seemingly neutral term, is rife with gendered assumptions and applications (Quiroga : 148). Indeed, researchers have identified a ‘hidden gendered character’ in medicalisation literature (Riska : 148).…”

Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

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‘I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test’: masculinity and the medicalisation of infertility

Bell

2015

Sociology Health & Illness

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Researchers have deemed medicalisation a 'gendered' theory, yet the incorporation of men and masculinity in medicalisation literature is sparse. Recently, however, medicalisation scholarship has begun studying men. This burgeoning literature heavily emphasises sexuality and is beginning to focus on medicalised masculinities in which traits associated with masculinity are deemed a health risk. Such research has demonstrated how masculinities shape men's lived experiences of health, but how does health itself shape masculinity? I explore this question using the case of infertility. Through thirty in-depth interviews, I find that men use medicine as a way to achieve rather than diminish their sense of masculinity in the feminised context of reproduction. By perpetuating the stereotype that infertility is a woman's problem, the medical establishment has caused men to not necessarily see themselves as infertile. Additionally, even if men do claim the infertility status, they do not perceive it as negative. The legitimating effects of medicalisation objectify the ailment and separate its connection with sexuality. In centring men's voices, the study not only reveals men as active players in the reproductive process, but also incorporates them into understandings of medicalisation.

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Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

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‘I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test’: masculinity and the medicalisation of infertility

Bell

2015

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…In the view of feminist scholars, the fertility industry has produced new subtle form of eugenics (Almeling, 2010;Elster, 2005;Quiroga, 2007;Roberts, 2009) that ''compromises choice for donors and exacerbates hierarchies of human value based on stratified norms of race, ethnicity, economic class, and gender'' (Daniels and Heidt-Forsyth, 2012: 720).…”

Section: From Biopolitics To Bioeconomies: Race Eugenics and Futurementioning

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From biopolitics to bioeconomies: The ART of (re-)producing white futures in Mexico's surrogacy market

Schurr

2016

Environ Plan D

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Reproduction has been the privileged site of post-colonial eugenic politics through which the future national body is regulated in racial terms. Nikolas Rose argues that new forms of liberal eugenics have replaced traditional state biopolitics. In the current bioeconomy, it is no longer the state but active consumers that make (racialized) reproductive choices. The market of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Mexico serves as an empirical case to argue that the liberal eugenics practiced in this market recasts rather than replaces traditional state biopolitics. This becomes evident in (1) the racialized access to surrogacy programs in Mexico and (2) in giving higher value to white sex cells, while (3) devaluing the genetic traits of non-white women through the selection and classification processes of reproductive laborers. Analyzing the transnational geographies of surrogacy markets in Mexico, the article investigates how future bodies are whitened through biomedical practices and consumer choices that are shaped by and simultaneously reinforce (post-)colonial imaginaries of white desirability.

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“…Almeling 2011;Nahman 2006;Quiroga 2007;Thompson 2005). Also some other biodesirable traits in a donor -such as reproductive age, 'proven fertility' in the form of own children and absence of hereditary diseases -might be more obvious than others; indeed, we already know that aspects such as race, ethnicity and sometimes religion, all play crucial roles in the process of matching a donor to a recipient (e.g.…”

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Reproduction in transition: cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market

Payne

2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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Blood Is Thicker than Water: Policing Donor Insemination and the Reproduction of Whiteness

Cited by 58 publications

References 13 publications

‘I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test’: masculinity and the medicalisation of infertility

‘I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test’: masculinity and the medicalisation of infertility

From biopolitics to bioeconomies: The ART of (re-)producing white futures in Mexico's surrogacy market

Reproduction in transition: cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market

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