As a method of family formation, cross-border surrogacy is controversial and beset by risks of exploitation. This article extends the literature on surrogacy by examining the way Australian surrogacy promotion and information events represent cross-border surrogacy. It examines the emerging phenomenon of surrogacy events held by a not-for-profit surrogacy organization to promote cross-border surrogacy in Australia—a country that prohibits commercial surrogacy. The article draws on observations from a series of surrogacy events in Australia and online during the 2019–21 time period. It examines the presentations given at these events by surrogacy facilitators, surrogate mothers, and intended parents. We observed four themes: (1) Intended parents are positioned as consumers, (2) the benefits of cross-border commercial surrogacy are highlighted relative to other methods of family formation, (3) the positive side of cross-border surrogacy is accentuated, and (4) reproductive rights are emphasized. These representations run counter to feminist framings of cross-border surrogacy as exploitative and risky. This paper understands that the framing of surrogacy that occurs at these promotion events to be neoliberal in nature. The conceptualization helps explain their consumerist peppiness and commodifying subjectivity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3138/ijfab-15.1.29
Marion Boulicault, Annika Gompers, Katharine Lee, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn
{"title":"A Feminist Approach to Analyzing Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes.","authors":"Marion Boulicault, Annika Gompers, Katharine Lee, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn","doi":"10.3138/ijfab-15.1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab-15.1.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"15 1","pages":"167-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262278/pdf/nihms-1815548.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40507757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article proposes a new way of conceptualizing the ethical relationship between postpartum mothers and their newborn babies. I suggest that the intertwinement of mother and baby - and the tensions that this intertwinement produces - do not disappear with birth, but rather persist throughout the postpartum period in the form of postpartum maternal tethering. I draw upon three years of ethnographic fieldwork and training in the US and China to argue that the dependency associated with postpartum maternal tethering makes it extremely difficult for postpartum mothers to act autonomously, even in the relational sense. I then examine how breaches in the postpartum maternal tether can open up new possibilities for thinking about the bioethics of vulnerability, dependency and care, by denaturalizing and de-sanctifying the mother-baby relationship and diversifying newborn care.
{"title":"Postpartum Maternal Tethering: A Bioethics of Early Motherhood.","authors":"Katherine Mason","doi":"10.3138/ijfab-14.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab-14.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article proposes a new way of conceptualizing the ethical relationship between postpartum mothers and their newborn babies. I suggest that the intertwinement of mother and baby - and the tensions that this intertwinement produces - do not disappear with birth, but rather persist throughout the postpartum period in the form of <i>postpartum maternal tethering</i>. I draw upon three years of ethnographic fieldwork and training in the US and China to argue that the dependency associated with postpartum maternal tethering makes it extremely difficult for postpartum mothers to act autonomously, even in the relational sense. I then examine how breaches in the postpartum maternal tether can open up new possibilities for thinking about the bioethics of vulnerability, dependency and care, by denaturalizing and de-sanctifying the mother-baby relationship and diversifying newborn care.</p>","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"14 1","pages":"49-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9390069/pdf/nihms-1775822.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40630109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.194
L. Barbera
{"title":"Fritz Jahr and the foundations of global bioethics: The future of integrative bioethics . Edited by Amir Muzur and Hans Martin-Sass (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012)","authors":"L. Barbera","doi":"10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"13 1","pages":"194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84029967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.185
T. V. D. Broek
In order to contain public care expenditure, policy makers in the Netherlands have over the last decades formulated in ever more stringent ways what ought to be expected from spouses, partners and family members with regard to care for dependent relatives. The current Dutch coalition cabinet plans to shift the principal responsibility for non-medical care, including demanding forms of care such as long-term personal care, to individuals and families. I argue that these policy developments imply cost redistribution rather than cost containment and that this redistribution is disadvantageous for women.
{"title":"Formalization of informal care in the Netherlands","authors":"T. V. D. Broek","doi":"10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.185","url":null,"abstract":"In order to contain public care expenditure, policy makers in the Netherlands have over the last decades formulated in ever more stringent ways what ought to be expected from spouses, partners and family members with regard to care for dependent relatives. The current Dutch coalition cabinet plans to shift the principal responsibility for non-medical care, including demanding forms of care such as long-term personal care, to individuals and families. I argue that these policy developments imply cost redistribution rather than cost containment and that this redistribution is disadvantageous for women.","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"95 4 1","pages":"185-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77701042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.198
D. Lacey
{"title":"Maxwell J. Mehlman, Transhumanist dreams and dystopian nightmares: The promise and peril of genetic engineering. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)","authors":"D. Lacey","doi":"10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.2.198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"91 1","pages":"198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80397426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.1.172
Reid
{"title":"Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Long-term care, globalization, and justice","authors":"Reid","doi":"10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.1.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.6.1.172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"13 1","pages":"172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77939917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.5.1.133
Leissner
{"title":"Birthing a mother: The surrogate body and the pregnant self Elly Teman","authors":"Leissner","doi":"10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.5.1.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INTJFEMAPPBIO.5.1.133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"86 16 1","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84011983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-10-01DOI: 10.2979/FAB.2010.3.2.170
C. Ells
{"title":"The ethics of bioethics: Mapping the moral landscape.Edited by Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia G. Cohn. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009","authors":"C. Ells","doi":"10.2979/FAB.2010.3.2.170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FAB.2010.3.2.170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics","volume":"422 1","pages":"170-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90094970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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