Journal article
Speaking of Solidarity: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy and the Rhetorics of Reproductive (In)Justice
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol.34(3), pp.126-163
2013
DOI: 10.5250/fronjwomestud.34.3.0126
Abstract
Rooted in the lived experiences and organizing strategies of women of the global South and women of color of the global North, reproductive justice simultaneously accounts for 'the ways individual women negotiate the risks, barriers, and opportunities associated with surrogacy work,' while offering 'a theory, strategy and practice for organizing against multiple, interlocking reproductive violences.' This article unfolds in three sections. First, the author offers a brief overview of surrogacy that sketches the contours of its contemporary form within the vast commercial landscape of assisted reproduction, as well as its critical interrogation by feminist scholars and advocates. Second, she turns to the rhetorical crafting of surrogacy within popular imaginaries, attending to mainstream, mediated narratives that circulate broadly in US news sources, periodicals, magazines, and radio and talk shows. Finally, she returns to the project of reproductive justice and solidarity and query the possibilities of rhetorical interventions on behalf of these goals.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Speaking of Solidarity: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy and the Rhetorics of Reproductive (In)Justice
- Creators
- Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol.34(3), pp.126-163
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE
- DOI
- 10.5250/fronjwomestud.34.3.0126
- ISSN
- 0160-9009
- Comment
- SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Females; Justice; Feminism; Magazines; Intervention; Rhetoric; Risk; Constraints; Transnationalism
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984090529102771
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