Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and...

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Monica Konrad

Nameless Relations

Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients...

Monica Konrad

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English

Berghahn Books
01 May 2005

Sociology: family & relationships; Human reproduction, growth & development

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience – the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other – Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. Offsetting informants’ local narratives against traditional Western folk models of the ‘sexed’ reproductive body, the book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that clinicians and others promote as “gifts of life.” It brings together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology, social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of bodily integrity.

By: Monica Konrad
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 7
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 413g
ISBN: 9781845450403
ISBN 10: 184545040X
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 May 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients

Konrad has produced an exceptionally interesting and totally original book ... a major contribution to social theory. * Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University