Suchergebnisse

Murphy Brown and the lesbian baby boom -- Technologies and politics of reproduction -- Semen to go: choosing conception alternatively -- Semen transactions: donor screening and the regulation of sexuality -- Grass roots eugenics and the fantasy donor -- Semen as gift, semen as goods: reproductive workers and the market in -- Altruism -- From "old eggs" to "Odysseus' journey"-the phenomenology of infertility -- What's alternative about family? -- From Murphy Brown to modern families -- Conclusion: towards a new biopolitechs of emerging families

Iran has one of the world's largest refugee populations, comprised primarily of Afghans and Iraqi Kurds.1 As of 2001, there were approximately 2.5 million Afghan refugees living in Iran. About 1.8 million of those were documented and the rest undocumented. With aggressive repatriation efforts under the supervision of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the Afghan population in Iran in 2004 dropped to around one million documented and another 500,000 undocumented migrant workers.2 Based on ethnographic research among Afghans and low-income Iranians in urban and rural Isfahan, this paper examines how Afghans who access Iran's health services interpret health and family planning education in the face of Iran's repatriation efforts and increased social tension. Further, I investigate divergent views toward Afghan repatriation and notions of home, self, and identity. Ultimately, this paper addresses the various borders—physical, national, ethnic, religious, gendered, urban/rural—and how these borders can be redefined through the refugee experience, leaving hope for the future.

This article examines how perceptions of what semen is thought to contain affect its value as a marketable product. I explore how donor altruism, intelligence and ethnicity traits thought to be transmitted in sperm are perceived and transacted among representatives of the sperm banking industry, as well as among women who purchase semen for insemination and show how the linkages between the reproductive industry and the sex industry further heighten the commodity-quality of semen donation. I argue that the emphasis placed on altruism, is an attempt to redefine the commodity quality of semen as gift, in order to imbue it with higher emotional and moral value.

Editor's Note /Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen --On Reproduction /Merve Emre --Mothering /Sophie Lewis --The Violence of the Natural /Annie Menzel --Neoliberal Perfectionism /Chris Kaposy --Be Wary of the Techno-fix /Marcy Darnovsky --Suspending (Feminist) Judgment /Irina Aristakhova --Feminist Paradoxes /Diane Tober --Selling Hope /Miriam Zoll --Extreme Pregnancy /Andrea Long Chu --Every Woman I a Working Woman /Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards --Going to Work in Mommy's Basement /Sarah Sharma --Aging into Feminism /James Chappell --A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018-73 /Cathy O'Neil --When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children /Michael Bronski.