La reproducción asistida en el contexto español: la ovodonación como motor de un modelo de negocio heteronormativo
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Assisted reproduction has transformed the way an increasing amount of people reproduce, along with social imaginaries around how reproduction takes place. It has also made possible to medicalize and commercialize reproduction in a completely new manner. Within Spain, the private sector is the leading one, even though there is extensive coverage in terms of techniques within the Public Sector (though long waiting lists, age and heteronormative access limitations do exist). This paper discusses the expansion of assisted reproduction in Spain unifying social and medical literature, reviewing data from the Spanish Fertility Society (SEF) and presenting some qualitative findings that examine the role of egg donation within clinics through interviewing professionals from them. Through analyzing this qualitative data, we show how these techniques are entangled in the reproduction of a heteronormative statu quo involved in naturalizing and normalizing intra family gender roles both at the personal and cell levels.
Source: Política y Sociedad
DOI: 10.5209/poso.60620
Author: Sara Lafuente-Funes
Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Reproductive Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4255248918