Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour

Gabriele Griffin

ISBN 10: 1526138565 / ISBN 13: 9781526138569

Verlag: Manchester University Press, GB, 2020

How 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781526138569

Inhaltsangabe:

How 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at Uppsala University Doris Leibetseder is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2019) at Uppsala University

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Bodily Interventions and Intimate Labour
Verlag: Manchester University Press, GB
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Hardback
Zustand: New