{"product_id":"bodily-interventions-and-intimate-labour-understanding-bioprecarity-9781526138569","title":"Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow have rapid changes in biotechnologisation, for example around assisted reproductive technologies or (re)constructive surgery, effected those seeking help with fertility treatment or clitoral reconstruction? What is involved for queer people in making a family of their own, or for trans people to access the relevant surgery? This volume argues that contemporary cultures foster bioprecarity by categorizing groups of people in certain ways and\/or by denying them access to the treatment they seek or need. Drawing on original empirical data with trans and queer people, but also other minoritised and racialized groups, this volume explores how bodily interventions, their regulation, and the intimate labour the interventions involve, create vulnerabilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This edited volume from Griffin and Leibetseder (both, Uppsala Univ., Sweden) addresses bioprecarity, both theoretically and practically, in relation to bodies and notions of embodiment. While feminist scholarship has considered bodies for some time, this volume fills a gap in the literature by thematizing precisely how bodies involved in intimate labor are “made vulnerable.” That is, the volume’s contributors address how societal norms and regulations work to “require individuals to seek or provide bodily interventions of different kinds.” The collection contains 12 chapters organized into 5 parts. Topics considered include kin-making, commercial surrogacy, intimate partner violence, reproductive reconstruction, and histories of medical research as related to indigenous and transgender bodies. Griffin and Leibetseder have given careful attention to the layout of the volume, providing their own opening chapters as an entryway to the text. The book is clearly written and well supported with references. The scholarship is rigorous and links to canonical figures such as Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, as well as many other well-known scholars.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Washington State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Gabriele Griffin and Doris Leibetseder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Theorizing bioprecarity and the body\u003cbr\u003e1 Intimate labour and bioprecarity - Gabriele Griffin\u003cbr\u003e2 Bioprecarity as categorical framing - Doris Leibetseder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Precarity in the making of kin \u003cbr\u003e3 Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics - Ulrika Dahl\u003cbr\u003e4 Precarious bodily performances in queer and transgender reproduction with ART - Doris Leibetseder\u003cbr\u003e5 Bioprecarity and pregnancy in lesbian kinship - Petra Nordqvist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces\u003cbr\u003e6 Precarious pregnancies and precious products: Transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand - Elina Nilsson\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘It’s just sperm. That’s all you’re giving.’: Men’s views of sperm donation - Gabriele Griffin\u003cbr\u003e8 Bodily disrepair: Bioprecarity in the context of humanitarian surgical missions - Nancy Worthington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy\u003cbr\u003e9 Transgressing boundaries: Seeking help against intimate partner violence in lesbian and queer relationships - Nicole Ovesen\u003cbr\u003e10 Precarious subjectivities: Understanding the intimate labour involved in seeking clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting - Malin Jordal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Bioprecarity and eugenicist histories\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘My body, my self’: Indigeneity, bioprecarity and the construction of the embodied self – an artist’s view - Katarina Pirak Sikku and Gabriele Griffin\u003cbr\u003e12 The intimate labour of non-normative bodies: Transgender patients in early Swedish medical research\u003cb\u003e - \u003c\/b\u003eJulian Honkasalo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusions - Gabriele Griffin and Doris Leibetseder\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041000587607,"sku":"9781526138569","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526138569.jpg?v=1750948551","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bodily-interventions-and-intimate-labour-understanding-bioprecarity-9781526138569","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}