Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-11-16 Epub Date: 2024-12-21 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2439965

Polina Vlasenko

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Abstract

In this article I explore the dual impact of framing egg donation and surrogacy as work in Ukraine's fertility market. Egg donors, surrogates, and ART professionals use the labor narrative to legitimize these practices, albeit with differing aims. Women emphasize their economic role as worker-mothers, demanding fair treatment and recognition, while clinics employ the framework to market surrogates and donors and hold them accountable for outcomes. Without legal labor protections, this discourse empowers women to claim dignity and rights yet imposes disciplinary demands and shifts risks onto them, reflecting the precarities of their work.

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合法和纪律之间的工人母亲：在乌克兰卵子捐赠和代孕的模糊性。

在这篇文章中，我探讨了将卵子捐赠和代孕作为乌克兰生育市场工作的双重影响。卵子捐赠者、代孕母亲和ART专业人员使用劳动叙事来使这些做法合法化，尽管目的不同。妇女强调她们作为职业母亲的经济角色，要求公平的待遇和认可，而诊所则利用这个框架来推销代孕母亲和捐赠者，并让她们对结果负责。在没有法律劳动保护的情况下，这种话语赋予了妇女主张尊严和权利的权力，但却强加了纪律要求，并将风险转嫁给她们，反映了她们工作的不稳定性。

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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.