Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
304Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781571816474 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 05/01/2005 |
Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives , #7 |
Pages: | 304 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Monica Konrad is a Bye-Fellow of Girton College and Director of the PLACEB-O Research Orbital at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
List of Figures PrefacePART I: THE SECRETS IN THE GIFT
Chapter 1. What is Concealed Inside an Anonymously Donated Gamete?
- Incoexistence
- Inside Out
- ART, Exteriorisation and Forms of Facelessness
- Future Feminisms
- ‘Cosmic Egg’ Revisited
- Ova Donors and Recipients
- Finding Method in the Oblique
- Implicit Links and Multiple Audiences
Chapter 2. Anonymity and the Way of Juxtaposition
- Anonymity/taboo
- Anonymity/openness
- Anonymity/reciprocity
- Anonymity/partibility
- Anonymity/transilience
PART II: IN THE NAME OF THE UN-NAMED
Chapter 3. Donors I
- Come Superovulate!
- Free Gift Emerging
- ‘Not a Hardship at All’
- Testimonies of Assistance
- Intimately Impersonal
- And Free Gift Receding
- Becoming Special
- Prestige and ‘Fame’
- ‘It’s Something I Must Do!’
- Summary Link
Chapter 4. Donors II
- Categories of De-identification and Degrees of Anonymisation
- Strong, Indeterminate and Weak Anonymity
- Knowledge Outcomes and the Form of the Return Gift
- Neither Inalienable nor Forgettable
- Remote Parenting?
- Negotiated Maternity and the Ambiguous Progenetrix
Chapter 5. Donors III
- Donating Agency, Extension and Intersubjective Spacetime
- Reproducibility and Relations of Non-relations
- Odelle: Genes by Proxy
- Policy Link - Penny: Relations as Ripple Effects
- Policy Link - Rita: Donating Adoption
- Policy Link - Meena: Receiving Pardon
- Summary Link
- Dispossession, Effraction and Nontraceability
- What Goes Round Comes round
- What Goes around Comes around (Again)
Chapter 6. Recipients I
- Gift Elasticity and the Infertility Industry
- Egg-sharing, Egg-giving and Egg Donation
- Anonymity, Kinship Distance and ‘Poison’ in the Gift
- ‘Like with Like’ and the Equivalence of Matching
- Degrees of Information and Informational Gaps
- The Idea of ‘Donor-release’
- Mismatching
- ‘You See What You Want to See’
- Blood Food Lines
- Summary Link
Chapter 7. Recipients II
- Accountability and Blood Manipulations
- Revealing-while-keeping the Secret (Ella’s Effacement)
- Whatever Happened to You?
- Money Manipulations and Ova Pathways
- Taming Contingency (I): Ova Pathways and Directing Flow
- Taming Contingency (II): Ranking between Recipients
- How Ova and Embryo Pathways Make Half-siblings
- Policy Link
- Summary Link
Chapter 8. Recipients III
- Hyper-kinship within a Remaindered World
- Eliciting Hyperembryo
- Re-donation, Refusal and ‘Disowning Decisions’
- Sacrificial Keeping-while-giving and Donation to Research
- Obviating a Compounded Life
- Liquidating the Third Party
- Re-donation as Continuous Gifting
- Summary Link
PART III: APPLICATIONS
Chapter 9. Unconcealing Extensional Transilience
- Hyper-embryo into Infinite Partibility and the Sourcing of Embryonic Stem Cells
- Policy Link
- Transilient Kinship and Embryo Donor-conceived Children
- Summary Link
Chapter 10. Unconcealing Regenerative Transilience
- Spotlight on the Final Frontier
- Envisioning the Problem of Ovarian Tissue and the Life-giving Death
- Reconstituted Persons and the Extensional Imaginary
- How it is Imagined Breath Circulates between Persons
- How it is Imagined the Unborn Sibling Blood-donor Child Will Make New Life
- Discussion
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Relations of Non-relations
Appendix I: Donor Biographical Profiles Appendix II: Recipient Biographical Profiles Appendix III: Treatment Protocol
Bibliography Index