Constructing Relatedness Ethnicity, Gender and Third Party Assisted Conception in the UK
Constructing Relatedness Ethnicity, Gender and Third Party Assisted Conception in the UK
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DOI：
10.1177/0011392108099165
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
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2
通讯作者：
Hudson, Nicky
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作者：
Culley, Lorraine;Hudson, Nicky
本文探讨了如何围绕新的生殖技术的概念框架可能会受到宗教和文化背景的影响。使用来自经济和社会研究理事会（ESRC）资助的项目配子捐赠在英国南亚社区的公众观念的数据，本文讨论了妇女的叙述第三方协助受孕不孕不育治疗，在焦点小组讨论中构建。分析表明，人们对卵子捐赠和精子捐赠的看法存在强烈的反差。怀孕的母亲使妇女使用捐赠的卵子成为自然现象。然而，在父系文化背景下，父权被视为由遗传关系构成的。因此，使用捐赠的卵子被认为比使用捐赠的精子问题要小。然而，母性的化身，女性对自己生物材料的依恋，甚至是“分离”生殖的情感纽带，意味着女性同时很难想象自己成为卵子捐赠者。
This article explores how conceptual frameworks around new reproductive technologies may be influenced by religious and cultural contexts. Using data derived from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project on the public perceptions of gamete donation in British South Asian communities, the article discusses women's narratives of third-party assisted conception in infertility treatment, as constructed in focus group discussions. The analysis suggests a strong contrast in perceptions of egg donation and sperm donation. Embodied motherhood had the effect of naturalizing the use of donated eggs for women. Fatherhood, however, was seen as constituted by genetic relatedness in a patrilineal cultural context. Using donated eggs, then, was considered less problematic than using donated sperm. However, the embodiment of motherhood, the attachment of women to their biological material and the emotional ties of even 'detached' reproduction, meant that women simultaneously had difficulty in imagining themselves becoming egg donors.