Producing Moral Palatability in the Mexican Surrogacy Market
Producing Moral Palatability in the Mexican Surrogacy Market
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DOI：
10.1177/0891243218823344
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
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5.5
通讯作者：
Hovav, April
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作者：
Hovav, April
长期以来，学者们一直在争论道德与市场之间的关系。有些人认为道德会缓和市场利益，而另一些人则认为市场有自己的道德秩序。与此同时，女权主义学者认为，利他主义、家庭和亲密关系与市场的冷酷计算之间的错误二元关系是基于性别意识形态的。特别是围绕母性的规范，强调自我牺牲、爱和利他主义，与自利的市场逻辑相对立。商业代孕模糊了家庭和商业之间的界限，因此是研究利他主义和利润之间紧张关系的理想环境。借鉴民族志研究和采访114演员在墨西哥代孕行业，我证明，利他主义和商业主义的二分法可以进一步的市场利益，通过保持道德的适口性和盈利能力的行业，同时永久化的权力不对称植根于性别，种族，阶级和国籍之间的代孕母亲和预期的父母。
Scholars have long debated the relationship between morality and the market. Some argue that morality tempers market interests, while others argue that the market has its own moral order. Meanwhile, feminist scholars have argued that a false binary between altruism, family, and intimacy on the one hand, and the cold calculus of the market on the other, is based in gender ideologies. Norms around motherhood, in particular, emphasize self-sacrifice, love, and altruism in opposition to self-interested market logics. Commercial surrogacy blurs the line between family and commerce and is therefore an ideal setting for studying tensions between altruism and profit. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with 114 actors in the Mexican surrogacy industry, I demonstrate that treating altruism and commercialism as dichotomous can further market interests by preserving the moral palatability and profitability of the industry while perpetuating power asymmetries rooted in gender, race, class, and nationality between surrogate mothers and intended parents.