WGS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: France Winddance Twine, Surrogacy, Bodily Integrity

• School: SFSU
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 200
• Professor: Julietta Hua

Document Summary

Bodily integrity (should this be an entitlement?) Uneven valuations of life (what processes make one life more valuable than the next?) Professor of feminist studies, university of california, santa barbara. Alexis: our culture expectations around child birthing have changed (older parents); reproduction technologies are prevalent but not necessarily well-discussed. Liana: contrast with sterilization; sterilization and the rhetoric of overpopulation contrasts with surrogacy narratives of wanting more access to genetically linked children (difference is who is being sterilized versus who is being encouraged . Market for surrogacy reflects existing global wealth inequalities. We assume children look like parents (and if not, it becomes an abnormality/oddity) - history of slavery, whiteness as property (transmission of wealth vis heirs, also maintains color line) Ancestry and family history research reinforces the importance of genetic entitlement. Cult of domesticity naturalizes are certain kind of family, one that is hetero-patriarchal and nuclear (cult of genetic entitlement is part of that)