Bodily interventions and intimate labour: understanding bioprecarity

"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." -- Publisher's description

Introduction / Gabriele Griffin and Doris Leibetseder -- Part I: Theorizing bioprecarity and the body -- Intimate labour and bioprecarity / Gabriele Griffin -- Bioprecarity as categorical framing / Doris Leibetseder -- Part II: Precarity in the making of kin -- Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics / Ulrika Dahl -- Precarious bodily performances in queer and transgender reproduction with ART / Doris Leibetseder -- Bioprecarity and pregnancy in lesbian kinship / Petra Nordqvist -- Part III: Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces -- Precarious pregnancies and precious products: Transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand / Elina Nilsson -- 'It's just sperm. That's all you're giving.': Men's views of sperm donation / Gabriele Griffin -- Bodily disrepair: Bioprecarity in the context of humanitarian surgical missions / Nancy Worthington -- Part IV: Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy -- Transgressing boundaries: Seeking help against intimate partner violence in lesbian and queer relationships / Nicole Ovesen -- Precarious subjectivities: Understanding the intimate labour involved in seeking clitoral reconstruction after f…