Vetenskap, kroppar och skillnader: reproduktionens globala politik, 15 högskolepoäng

Obligatory readings

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Dahl, U. & Andreassen, R. (2023). Donors we choose: race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia. BioSocieties, 18(1), pp.79‑101.

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Recommended

Bach, A. S. (2020). Not of women born: sociotechnical imaginaries of gender and kinship in the regulation of transmasculine reproductive citizenship in Denmark. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, (1), pp. 33‑46.

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Dahl, U. & Gabb, J. (2020). Trends in contemporary queer kinship and family research. Lambda Nordica, 24(2‑3), pp. 209‑237.

Dahl, U., Mizielińska, J., Uibo, R. & Sorainen, A. (eds.) (2023). Queer(y)ing kinship in the Baltic region and beyond. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, pp. 147‑227.

Deomampo, D. (2019). Racialized commodities: race and value in human egg donation. Medical Anthropology, 38(7), pp. 620‑633.

Dickenson, D. (2007). Property in the body: feminist perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1‑54.

Griessler, E., Slepičková, L. et al. (2022). The regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Europe: variation, convergence and trends. London: Routledge.

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McNeil, M. (2007). Feminist cultural studies of science and technology. London: Routledge, pp. 72‑92.

Mamo, L. (2018). Queering reproduction in transnational bio‑economies. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society, 7, pp. 24‑32.

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Ross Dickinson, E. (2004). Biopolitics, fascism, democracy: some reflections on our discourse about “modernity”. Central European History, 37(1), pp. 1‑48.

Silva, S. & Machado, H. (2019). Citizenship and science on decisions about the fates of embryos. In: Riggs, R.‑F. & Gunnarsson Payne, J. (eds.), Transnationalising reproduction: third party conception in a globalised world. London: Routledge, pp. 152‑161.

Spektorowski, A. & Mizrachi, E. (2004). Eugenics and the welfare state in Sweden: the politics of social margins and the idea of a productive society. Journal of Contemporary History, 39(3), pp. 333‑352.

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Vertommen, S. & Barbagallo, C. (2021). The in/visible wombs of the market: the dialectics of waged and unwaged reproductive labour in the global surrogacy industry. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), pp. 1945‑1966.