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  1. Leaky bodies and boundaries: feminism, postmodernism and (bio)ethics.Margrit Shildrick - 1997 - New York: Routledge.
    Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies both female moral agency and bodylines. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorize women and to suggest that "leakiness" may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Margrit (...)
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  • The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines.Margaret Lock - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):63-91.
    The alienation of body parts and their transformation into commodities raises questions about ownership, property rights, and about possible violation of the moral order. This article focuses on the `social life' of objects, including body parts, and the multiple meanings attached to them that are made visible in systems of exchange. The transformation of DNA obtained in blood samples into immortalized cell lines for use in the Human Genome Diversity Project is introduced as an illustration of contested commodification. The meanings (...)
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  • Biomedicine, tissue transfer and intercorporeality.Catherine Waldby - 2002 - Feminist Theory 3 (3):239-254.
    More and more areas of medicine involve subjects donating tissues to another — blood, organs, bone marrow, sperm, ova and embryos can all be transferred from one person to another. Within the technical frameworks of biomedicine, such fragments are generally treated as detachable things, severed from social identity once they are removed from a particular body. However an abundant anthropological and sociological literature has found that, for donors and patients, human tissues are not impersonal. They retain some of the values (...)
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  • Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking.Nancy Scheper-Hughes - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):31-62.
    This article draws on a five-year, multi-sited transnational research project on the global traffic in human organs, tissues, and body parts from the living as well as from the dead as a misrecognized form of human sacrifice. Capitalist expansion and the spread of advanced medical and surgical techniques and developments in biotechnology have incited new tastes and traffic in the skin, bones, blood, organs, tissues, marrow and reproductive and genetic marginalized other. Examples drawn from recent ethnographic research in Israel, the (...)
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  • Property, Women, and Politics: Subjects or Objects?Donna Dickenson - 1997 - Cambridge: Polity.
    This book contributes to the feminist reconstruction of political theory. Although many feminist authors have pointed out the ways in which women have been property, they have been less successful in suggesting how women might become the subjects rather than the objects of property-holding. This book synthesises political theory from liberal, Marxist, Kantian and Hegelian traditions, applying these ideas to history and social policy.
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  • Towards Transnational Feminisms: Some Reflections and Concerns in Relation to the Globalization of Reproductive Technologies.Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta - 2006 - European Journal of Women's Studies 13 (1):23-38.
    This article discusses the emergence of the concept of ‘transnational feminisms’ as a differentiated notion from ‘global sisterhood’ within feminist postcolonial criticism. This is done in order to examine its usefulness for interrogating the globalization of reproductive technologies and women’s right to selfdetermination over their own bodies by using these technologies. In particular, women’s use of technologies for assisted conception, and the local and global transactions in reproductive body parts form a testing ground for transnational feminisms. Does the construction of (...)
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  • Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism.Diane M. Tober - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):137-160.
    This article examines how perceptions of what semen is thought to contain affect its value as a marketable product. I explore how donor altruism, intelligence and ethnicity traits thought to be transmitted in sperm are perceived and transacted among representatives of the sperm banking industry, as well as among women who purchase semen for insemination and show how the linkages between the reproductive industry and the sex industry further heighten the commodity-quality of semen donation. I argue that the emphasis placed (...)
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  • The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life.Andrew Kimbrell - 1994 - HarperCollins Publishers.
    Now in paperback: "The most disturbing and damning report to date on the biotechnology revolution and its ethical and social consequences and risks".--Publishers Weekly. "... Mr. Kimbrell tells the story effectively and fully".--The New York Times Book Review.
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  • Property, women, and politics, subjects or objects? [REVIEW]Donna Dickenson - 1999 - Ethics 109 (4):899-902.
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  • [Book review] time and commodity culture, essays in cultural theory and postmodernity. [REVIEW]John Frow - 1999 - Science and Society 63 (2):256-258.
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