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Romancing the sperm (MARCO TEÓRICO (Michel Foucault (1980) (Biopower…

- - - - the social and political power over life
    - - Subjugation of bodies and control of populations through numoerous and diverse techniques of the state
      - basic biological human features became object of a political strategy.
  - - - Heterosexuality seen as a natural inclination
        
        Thus, whoever dares to think otherwise is deviant or abhorrent
      - Assumed and enforced by an heteronormative society
      - Adopted by people despite their own sexual preferences
  - - - the industry has the power to define which tipe of family is created.
  - - - Embryological and reproductive research
        
        Exploits their procreativity
        
        Destroys their physical integrity
        
        objetifies women
        
        undermines their control over their own reproduction
      - Women as consumers in a local and global market. Patriarchy, race, gender and power, influence
        
        Franklin (1995); Ragone (1994); Franklin and Ragone (1994); Ginsburg and Rapp (1995); Markens (2007)
      - Dynamics of race and class
        
        Harrison (2016); Twine (2011)
- - - - Social, medical, legal and political environments
        
        what are the forces that influence access to reproductive technologies?
      - "to be sensitive, compelling"
    - - Relationship status?
      - Fertilty?
      - Sexual orientation?
    - - Not being the norm
        
        How are social relations mediated through the use of technology?
    - - How cultural perceptions of genetic inheritance affect individual reproductive practice.
        
        How do perceptions of genetic inheretance influence donor choice?
        
        Grassroots eugenetics
      - Reflection of the knid of children women want to bring
  - - - women who create families with sperm donors
        
        increasing age
        
        declining fertility
        
        rather on her own than no child at all
        
        Could afford it
        
        good health insurance
        
        good education
        
        lucrative career
      - Men who provide sperm
      - Sperm-banking industry
      - ALSO: the role of technology in the shifting lanscap of family creation
  - - - Gay Becker and Robert Nachtigall
    - - 1992, calling volunteers
        
        social and political tension
    - - Targeted heterosexual couples
    - - Meets a woman, who questions her own fertility
        
        discovers her health problems
      - Shifted form being a distanced observer and gatherer of stories to being able to feel the story
        
        "Being able to frame my research questions and brought me closer to my subject"
    - - Laura Nader (1972) "Studying up" --> Studying across
      - challenge the assumed distance between the self and the other (Said 1978)