Body Cultures #: Becoming Donor-Conceived

The Transformation of Anonymity in Gamete Donation

Body Cultures #: Becoming Donor-Conceived
Amelie Baumann
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15 Feb 2022 GE
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9783837657319
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While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in Germany and the UK, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone' s decision to procreate that turns "being donor-conceived" into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for "being donor-conceived" to become a powerful identification.

Becoming Donor-Conceived: The Transformation of Anonymity in Gamete Donation

Amelie Baumann works as a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universitat Berlin, where she is a member of the CRC Affective Societies. She completed her doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen in 2020 and was part of the interdisciplinary research project Reconfiguring Anonymity, funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation. Her research focuses on medical anthropology and kinship studies.
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ISBN-13: 9783837657319
Published: 15 Feb 2022
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback
Height: 226mm
Width: 147mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 360

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