"Not Too Different": Doing Resemblance, Enacting Boundaries in Sperm Donor Matching For/By Dutch Intended Parents.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2025.2504364

Roos Metselaar

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Abstract

Scholars writing about selecting gamete donors have emphasized the importance of resemblance when choosing a donor. However, while they have thoroughly researched the question of why prospective parents consider resemblance important, how resemblance is done remains unexplored. Adopting a material semiotics approach and employing ethnographic research about sperm-donor matching for and by prospective parents in the Netherlands, I argue that resemblance matching entails enacting boundaries between people deemed "similar enough" and "too different." In relational practices of (not) doing kinship and doing resemblance, race is often enacted as a relevant difference.

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“不太不同”：荷兰准父母在精子捐赠者匹配中做相似，制定界限。

关于选择配子捐赠者的学者在文章中强调了选择捐赠者时相似性的重要性。然而，尽管他们已经彻底研究了为什么未来的父母认为相似性很重要，但如何做到相似性仍然没有被探索。我采用了物质符号学的方法，并对荷兰的准父母和准父母的捐精者匹配进行了人种学研究，我认为，相似性匹配需要在被认为“足够相似”和“太不同”的人之间划定界限。在（不）做亲缘关系和做相似关系的实践中，种族经常被设定为一个相关的差异。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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