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Outsourcing Reproduction in the Bioeconomy. (Un)Fulfilled Reproductive Desires, Duties, Health, and Rights: A WPR Problematization of Reproductive Governance in Mexican Surrogacy and Oocyte Vending Integrating Feminist Body and Postcolonial Theories
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
2024 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 12 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Surrogacy and oocyte vending are commercial forms of reproductive labor that have garnered attention as hotspots for human rights violations. Academic research has covered large areas of the field, among which stand out the relevant ethnographies centered on the reality of surrogates and egg-sellers and the violations perpetrated against them, mapping the different narratives that legitimate the practices and produce the desired subjects. The present descriptive research pools together that line of research and a wider structural perspective on the politico-economic operations of these global markets, also part of the existing scholarship, to problematize these two practices via the application of Bacchi's methodological tool for systemic public policy analysis—"What's the problem represented to be?" (WPR)—and a critical theoretical framework that draws on postcolonialism and feminist body theory. Conceptualizing surrogacy and oocyte vending as nongovernmental 'policies' of reproductive governance, this study analyzes marketing texts from 10 websites of fertility clinics/agencies operating in Mexico, alongside previous research, showing how reproduction is governed in these markets by intersected logics of race, gender, and class inequalities. Tracing the underlying key concepts, subjectivities, and dichotomies, the study suggests that surrogacy and oocyte vending misalign with the notions and purpose of reproductive health and rights, contributing towards their academic interrogation from a governmentality standpoint that supplies insight on these practices as entrenched in the politics of reproduction.

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2024. , p. 59
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surrogacy, oocyte vending, Mexico, reproductive governance, reproductive health and rights
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Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-70532OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-70532DiVA, id: diva2:1891627
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KS GPS Human Rights
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