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Bodily interventions and intimate labour : understanding bioprecarity / edited by Gabriele Griffin and Doris Leibetseder.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
- Surgery, Plastic.
- Reproductive technology--Social aspects.
- Reproductive technology.
- Sexual minorities--Medical care.
- Sexual minorities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Theorizing bioprecarity and the body
- Intimate labour and bioprecarity
- Bioprecarity as categorical framing
- Part II Precarity in the making of kin
- Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics
- Precarious bodily performances in queer and transgender reproduction with ART
- Bioprecarity and pregnancy in lesbian kinship
- Part III Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces
- Precarious pregnancies and precious products: Transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand
- 'It's just sperm. That's all you're giving': Men's views of sperm donation
- Bodily disrepair: Bioprecarity in the context of humanitarian surgical missions
- Part IV Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy
- Transgressing boundaries: Seeking help against intimate partner violence in lesbian and queer relationships
- Precarious subjectivities: Understanding the intimate labour involved in seeking clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting
- Part V Bioprecarity and eugenicist histories
- 'My body, my self': Indigeneity, bioprecarity and the construction of the embodied self - an artist's view
- The intimate labour of non-normative bodies: Transgender patients in early Swedish medical research
- Conclusions
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 18, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526138583
- 1526138581
- 9781526138576
- 1526138573
- OCLC:
- 1140679817
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