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Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: In February 2016 we convened a workshop at UC Berkeley, Making Families: Transnational Surrogacy, Queer Kinship, and Reproductive Justice. We were seeking to bring into direct conversation three theoretical frameworks that have each transformed scholarship and influenced practice around transnational surrogacy and reproduction: ‘stratified reproduction’, ‘reproductive justice’, and ‘queer reproductions’. Given the different intellectual and activist genealogies of these three fields, our aim in the workshop and in this resulting symposium issue was twofold: firstly, to draw out the explicit and implicit contributions of these three areas to understanding and helping shape the changing landscape of transnational surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology (ART) and secondly, to work through apparent tensions among these three approaches so as to forge intellectual and political solidarities that can strengthen scholarship and influence policy.

Source: Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2018.11.001

Authors: Marcin Smietana, Charis Thompson, France Winddance Twine

Institutions: University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Health and Technologies

Subfield: Reproductive Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $1,640