“Cycling Overseas”: Care, Commodification, and Stratification in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel
“Cycling Overseas”: Care, Commodification, and Stratification in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel
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“骑行海外”：跨境生殖旅行的关怀、商品化与分层
DOI：
10.1080/01459740.2010.501313
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
A. Speier
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文献类型：
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作者：
A. Whittaker;A. Speier
跨境生殖旅行涉及患者通过技术接受辅助生殖治疗，例如体外受精和相关程序，否则由于成本、获取或监管限制而无法进行。基于泰国、美国和捷克共和国的实地调查，我们探讨了这一贸易中生殖身体的商品化，以及减少生殖情感劳动以交换价值。其次，我们考察再生产分层的集约化和全球化。这些不平等现象通过对贫困妇女身体用于代孕和卵子捐赠的交易的讨论得到了体现。甚至生殖身体部位、卵子、精子和胚胎也是分层的——根据原产地、捐赠者的特征和性别进行销售。
Cross-border reproductive travel involves the movement of patients to undertake assisted reproductive treatment through technologies, such as in vitro fertilization and associated procedures otherwise denied to them due to cost, access, or regulatory restrictions. Based on fieldwork in Thailand, the United States, and the Czech Republic, we explore the commodification of reproductive bodies within this trade and the reduction of the nurturing affective labor of reproduction to exchange value. Second, we examine the intensification and globalization of the stratification of reproduction. These inequalities are illustrated though discussion of the trade in poor women's bodies for surrogacy and ova donation. Even reproductive body parts, ova, sperm, and embryos are stratified—marketed according to place of origin, the characteristics of their donors, and gender.