Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2395291

Tiba Bonyad

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Abstract

Despite the economic incentives evidenced in the recruitment strategies of the Iranian fertility industry for egg donors, the official discourse put forward by policymakers conveys egg donation as an altruistic act. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two fertility clinics in Tehran, I center the narratives of paid egg donors to investigate how multiple meanings are attributed to egg donation as a form of labor, demonstrating how reproductive inequalities are perpetuated in this context. Following feminist theorists of reproductive bioeconomies, I argue that Iranian donors experience and articulate their participation in local egg market through the prism of their economic marginality, gendered responsibilities, and religiously informed beliefs, including divine reward.

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伊朗有偿捐卵者的劳动框架：边缘化、性别关怀和天赐奖赏》（Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward.

尽管伊朗生育产业对卵子捐献者的招募策略体现了经济激励，但政策制定者提出的官方论述却将卵子捐献视为一种利他主义行为。通过在德黑兰两家生育诊所进行人种学实地调查，我以有偿捐卵者的叙述为中心，研究捐卵作为一种劳动形式是如何被赋予多重含义的，从而展示生殖不平等是如何在这种背景下长期存在的。按照女性主义生殖生物经济理论家的观点，我认为伊朗捐卵者通过其经济边缘性、性别责任和宗教信仰（包括神的奖赏）的棱镜来体验和阐述他们参与当地卵子市场的情况。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.