Stine Willum Adrian
Biographic Data
| ID | 346348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stine Willum Adrian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stine Willum |
| FAMILY NAME | Adrian |
| SIGNATURE | ADRIAN S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1481-4318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Insuring masculinity
Cryopreservation of sperm dates to the 1950s. Today, private sperm banks and fertility clinics cryopreserve sperm for private customers for all kinds of reasons. Little is known, however, of why individual men cryopreserve their sperm. The invisibility of the existing practices of sperm storage is mirrored in the ethnographic literature. Based on qualitative interviews with 30 men, this article analyzes how talking about sperm storage invokes ima…
How journalism forgets
This article presents a postcolonial and feminist analysis of 44 newspaper articles published between 1965 and 2022 about “the coil campaign” in Greenland, which fitted Greenlandic Inuit women with the IUD in the 1960s and 1970s, at times without their knowledge or consent. Using a media archive search and conducting a discursive analysis, we explore how journalistic reporting and debates enabled a discourse of colonial virtues and modernization …
Freezing Sperm for the Future
Since the 1950s, human sperm has been cryopreserved and stored for personal use. However, men's reasons and reflections regarding sperm storage have yet to be explored in feminist science and technology studies. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews with men who have cryopreserved their sperm in Denmark, this study asks, How does the phenomenon of kinship emerge and (re)configure as men cryopreserve their sperm? Using the term 'phenomenon' fro…
Orchestrating moral bearability in the clinical management of second-trimester selective abortion
In present-day Denmark, second-trimester selective abortion has become a regular medical event, which has turned selective abortion care into a routinized task for health staff. In this article, we explore what forms of care practices abortion providers in Danish public hospitals engage in. Using in-depth interviews, medical documents and social media data, we show that at the center of selective abortion care provision is not only securing safe …
The Long March Through the Patriarchal Institutions
Doing feminist work from within patriarchal institutions comes with unique challenges. We invited two activists and feminist studies professors, Rosi Braidotti and Nina Lykke, to reflect on feminists’ long march through patriarchal university institutions. Concretely, we asked them to reflect upon three themes. Firstly, we asked them to situate themselves and their work – and reflect upon what it takes to do feminist work which troubles mainstrea…
Monstrous Motherhood – Women on the Edge of Reproductive Age
Women using reproductive technologies to extend the period they can procreate challenge nature and culture, and traverse the boundary between what is considered normal and abnormal. In other words, women inhabit the potentialities of reproductive change found in Margrit Schildrich's figure of the monstrous. Haraway and Dumit's implosion method is a useful vehicle for following women who are on the edge of reproductive age through legislation, the…
Teknosociale Sammenfiltringer
Redaktionelt forord
Dialogues on Agential Realism
Dialogues on Agential Realism is built up around dialogues with key scholars in the field: Magdalena Górska, Astrid Schrader, Elizabeth de Freitas, Ericka Johnson and Karen Barad. The book investigates agential realist-inspired research practices and provides illustrations of what response-able knowledge production may involve. Based on thorough readings of the scholars’ work, careful dialogues concerning the challenges, messiness, thrill and inv…
Stitching Stories of Broken Hearts
Born with half a heart, my firstborn child died when he was three weeks old. This auto-ethnographic article takes as its point of departure one of the questions that this tragic event made me ask: How do technologies reconfigure responsibility for death, as technologies are involved in ending or saving the lives of children like my son? With this question, I introduce a new research agenda within reproductive studies regarding how technologies re…
Rethinking reproductive selection
Introduction to Feminist STS at work
What critical questions and potential worlds are emerging out of feminist STS today? What political agendas do we challenge when we draw attention to processes of inclusion and exclusion within the sciences, and what political work needs to be done and undone through sciences and technologies? These are the questions that have inspired us to propose and edit this special issue of Women, Gender & Research entitled Feminist STS at Work
Epistemology, Activism, and Entanglement - Rethinking Knowledge Production
Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita at the Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.She has been an engaged feminist researcher, educator, and activist since the 1970s, duringwhich time she has developed important critiques of epistemologies in science and technology.She has covered topics as diverse as the space race, reproductive technologies, cancer, and death.Lykke has published widely in both Scandinavia and internationally within th…
Passport to Parenthood
Denmark has become a destination for single women, lesbians, and heterosexual couples wanting donated sperm. At the moment, women from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, and the UK travel to Denmark. Simultaneously, waiting lists for donated eggs and age restrictions are prime motivations for infertile Danish women and heterosexual couples to leave Denmark and travel to Spain, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine, and Greece for egg donation. Informed by…
Psychological IVF
During ethnographic fieldwork at a fertility clinic in Denmark, I became intrigued by emotions. In particular, I found an incidence labelled ‘psychological IVF’ theoretically provocative as it challenged my views on materializations, which I was preparing to study. This paper centres on the story of psychological IVF, and I use this narrative to consider emotions and materialization methodologically. I also ask how emotions at fertility clinics c…
Assisteret befrugtning, en feministisk teoretisk udfordring
Since Sulamith Firestones published: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution (1970), an engaged debate between feminists has developed regarding the use of assisted reproduction. The technology has generated questions such as: Is assisted reproduction a technology of emancipation or suppression? Who should have access to assisted reproduction? And what happens to perceptions of concepts such as kinship and gender when assisted repr…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Jorunn Hareid: Kæmpe, til jeg kan ej mere: Magdalene Thoresen: En forfatterbiografi. Scanvik, 2012.Renate Klein: Responding to Intimate Violence Against Women. The Role of Informal Networks. Cambridge University Press, 2012.Jacob Birkler: Helt Uden Grænser. Etik og Seksualitet. Munksgaard, 2012.Katri Kivilaakso, Ann-Sofie Lönngren og Rita Paqvalén (red.): Queera läsningar. Litteraturvetenskap möter queerteori. Rosenlarv förlag, 2012
Sperm on Ice
Freezing technologies and extraction techniques make posthumous reproduction possible. This article discusses the bioethical and legal debates that surround the possession and use of dead men's sperm as they unfold in three select cases in Denmark and Australia. In the analysis we use feminist perspectives on reproduction to argue that the debates frame posthumous reproduction in light of four discursive configurations: The ‘child’, the ‘father’,…
Sperm stories
In Denmark and Sweden sperm donation is the most debated and contested of the reproductive technologies that are currently in use. Although the two countries are neighbouring welfare states with public healthcare in common, policies and practices of sperm banking and sperm donation differ strongly. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how the sperm used for donor insemination is narrated, chosen, produced and consumed at sperm…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer anmeldes følgende: "Gender" (R.W. Connell), "Att (åter)skapa 'det normala': Bröstoperationer och brännskador i plastikkirugisk praktik" (Kerstin Sandell)
Sperm stories
In Denmark and Sweden sperm donation is the most debated and contested of the reproductive technologies that are currently in use. Although the two countries are neighbouring welfare states with public healthcare in common, policies and practices of sperm banking and sperm donation differ strongly. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how the sperm used for donor insemination is narrated, chosen, produced and consumed at sperm…
Sperm on Ice
Freezing technologies and extraction techniques make posthumous reproduction possible. This article discusses the bioethical and legal debates that surround the possession and use of dead men's sperm as they unfold in three select cases in Denmark and Australia. In the analysis we use feminist perspectives on reproduction to argue that the debates frame posthumous reproduction in light of four discursive configurations: The ‘child’, the ‘father’,…
Psychological IVF
During ethnographic fieldwork at a fertility clinic in Denmark, I became intrigued by emotions. In particular, I found an incidence labelled ‘psychological IVF’ theoretically provocative as it challenged my views on materializations, which I was preparing to study. This paper centres on the story of psychological IVF, and I use this narrative to consider emotions and materialization methodologically. I also ask how emotions at fertility clinics c…
Monstrous Motherhood – Women on the Edge of Reproductive Age
Women using reproductive technologies to extend the period they can procreate challenge nature and culture, and traverse the boundary between what is considered normal and abnormal. In other words, women inhabit the potentialities of reproductive change found in Margrit Schildrich's figure of the monstrous. Haraway and Dumit's implosion method is a useful vehicle for following women who are on the edge of reproductive age through legislation, the…
Stitching Stories of Broken Hearts
Born with half a heart, my firstborn child died when he was three weeks old. This auto-ethnographic article takes as its point of departure one of the questions that this tragic event made me ask: How do technologies reconfigure responsibility for death, as technologies are involved in ending or saving the lives of children like my son? With this question, I introduce a new research agenda within reproductive studies regarding how technologies re…
Introduction to Feminist STS at work
What critical questions and potential worlds are emerging out of feminist STS today? What political agendas do we challenge when we draw attention to processes of inclusion and exclusion within the sciences, and what political work needs to be done and undone through sciences and technologies? These are the questions that have inspired us to propose and edit this special issue of Women, Gender & Research entitled Feminist STS at Work
Passport to Parenthood
Denmark has become a destination for single women, lesbians, and heterosexual couples wanting donated sperm. At the moment, women from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, and the UK travel to Denmark. Simultaneously, waiting lists for donated eggs and age restrictions are prime motivations for infertile Danish women and heterosexual couples to leave Denmark and travel to Spain, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine, and Greece for egg donation. Informed by…
Rethinking reproductive selection
Epistemology, Activism, and Entanglement - Rethinking Knowledge Production
Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita at the Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.She has been an engaged feminist researcher, educator, and activist since the 1970s, duringwhich time she has developed important critiques of epistemologies in science and technology.She has covered topics as diverse as the space race, reproductive technologies, cancer, and death.Lykke has published widely in both Scandinavia and internationally within th…
Orchestrating moral bearability in the clinical management of second-trimester selective abortion
In present-day Denmark, second-trimester selective abortion has become a regular medical event, which has turned selective abortion care into a routinized task for health staff. In this article, we explore what forms of care practices abortion providers in Danish public hospitals engage in. Using in-depth interviews, medical documents and social media data, we show that at the center of selective abortion care provision is not only securing safe …
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer anmeldes følgende: "Gender" (R.W. Connell), "Att (åter)skapa 'det normala': Bröstoperationer och brännskador i plastikkirugisk praktik" (Kerstin Sandell)
Sperm stories
In Denmark and Sweden sperm donation is the most debated and contested of the reproductive technologies that are currently in use. Although the two countries are neighbouring welfare states with public healthcare in common, policies and practices of sperm banking and sperm donation differ strongly. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how the sperm used for donor insemination is narrated, chosen, produced and consumed at sperm…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Jorunn Hareid: Kæmpe, til jeg kan ej mere: Magdalene Thoresen: En forfatterbiografi. Scanvik, 2012.Renate Klein: Responding to Intimate Violence Against Women. The Role of Informal Networks. Cambridge University Press, 2012.Jacob Birkler: Helt Uden Grænser. Etik og Seksualitet. Munksgaard, 2012.Katri Kivilaakso, Ann-Sofie Lönngren og Rita Paqvalén (red.): Queera läsningar. Litteraturvetenskap möter queerteori. Rosenlarv förlag, 2012
Sperm on Ice
Freezing technologies and extraction techniques make posthumous reproduction possible. This article discusses the bioethical and legal debates that surround the possession and use of dead men's sperm as they unfold in three select cases in Denmark and Australia. In the analysis we use feminist perspectives on reproduction to argue that the debates frame posthumous reproduction in light of four discursive configurations: The ‘child’, the ‘father’,…
Psychological IVF
During ethnographic fieldwork at a fertility clinic in Denmark, I became intrigued by emotions. In particular, I found an incidence labelled ‘psychological IVF’ theoretically provocative as it challenged my views on materializations, which I was preparing to study. This paper centres on the story of psychological IVF, and I use this narrative to consider emotions and materialization methodologically. I also ask how emotions at fertility clinics c…
Assisteret befrugtning, en feministisk teoretisk udfordring
Since Sulamith Firestones published: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution (1970), an engaged debate between feminists has developed regarding the use of assisted reproduction. The technology has generated questions such as: Is assisted reproduction a technology of emancipation or suppression? Who should have access to assisted reproduction? And what happens to perceptions of concepts such as kinship and gender when assisted repr…
Introduction to Feminist STS at work
What critical questions and potential worlds are emerging out of feminist STS today? What political agendas do we challenge when we draw attention to processes of inclusion and exclusion within the sciences, and what political work needs to be done and undone through sciences and technologies? These are the questions that have inspired us to propose and edit this special issue of Women, Gender & Research entitled Feminist STS at Work
Epistemology, Activism, and Entanglement - Rethinking Knowledge Production
Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita at the Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.She has been an engaged feminist researcher, educator, and activist since the 1970s, duringwhich time she has developed important critiques of epistemologies in science and technology.She has covered topics as diverse as the space race, reproductive technologies, cancer, and death.Lykke has published widely in both Scandinavia and internationally within th…
Passport to Parenthood
Denmark has become a destination for single women, lesbians, and heterosexual couples wanting donated sperm. At the moment, women from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, and the UK travel to Denmark. Simultaneously, waiting lists for donated eggs and age restrictions are prime motivations for infertile Danish women and heterosexual couples to leave Denmark and travel to Spain, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine, and Greece for egg donation. Informed by…
Rethinking reproductive selection
Dialogues on Agential Realism
Dialogues on Agential Realism is built up around dialogues with key scholars in the field: Magdalena Górska, Astrid Schrader, Elizabeth de Freitas, Ericka Johnson and Karen Barad. The book investigates agential realist-inspired research practices and provides illustrations of what response-able knowledge production may involve. Based on thorough readings of the scholars’ work, careful dialogues concerning the challenges, messiness, thrill and inv…
Stitching Stories of Broken Hearts
Born with half a heart, my firstborn child died when he was three weeks old. This auto-ethnographic article takes as its point of departure one of the questions that this tragic event made me ask: How do technologies reconfigure responsibility for death, as technologies are involved in ending or saving the lives of children like my son? With this question, I introduce a new research agenda within reproductive studies regarding how technologies re…
The Long March Through the Patriarchal Institutions
Doing feminist work from within patriarchal institutions comes with unique challenges. We invited two activists and feminist studies professors, Rosi Braidotti and Nina Lykke, to reflect on feminists’ long march through patriarchal university institutions. Concretely, we asked them to reflect upon three themes. Firstly, we asked them to situate themselves and their work – and reflect upon what it takes to do feminist work which troubles mainstrea…
Monstrous Motherhood – Women on the Edge of Reproductive Age
Women using reproductive technologies to extend the period they can procreate challenge nature and culture, and traverse the boundary between what is considered normal and abnormal. In other words, women inhabit the potentialities of reproductive change found in Margrit Schildrich's figure of the monstrous. Haraway and Dumit's implosion method is a useful vehicle for following women who are on the edge of reproductive age through legislation, the…
Teknosociale Sammenfiltringer
Redaktionelt forord
Orchestrating moral bearability in the clinical management of second-trimester selective abortion
In present-day Denmark, second-trimester selective abortion has become a regular medical event, which has turned selective abortion care into a routinized task for health staff. In this article, we explore what forms of care practices abortion providers in Danish public hospitals engage in. Using in-depth interviews, medical documents and social media data, we show that at the center of selective abortion care provision is not only securing safe …
How journalism forgets
This article presents a postcolonial and feminist analysis of 44 newspaper articles published between 1965 and 2022 about “the coil campaign” in Greenland, which fitted Greenlandic Inuit women with the IUD in the 1960s and 1970s, at times without their knowledge or consent. Using a media archive search and conducting a discursive analysis, we explore how journalistic reporting and debates enabled a discourse of colonial virtues and modernization …
Freezing Sperm for the Future
Since the 1950s, human sperm has been cryopreserved and stored for personal use. However, men's reasons and reflections regarding sperm storage have yet to be explored in feminist science and technology studies. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews with men who have cryopreserved their sperm in Denmark, this study asks, How does the phenomenon of kinship emerge and (re)configure as men cryopreserve their sperm? Using the term 'phenomenon' fro…
Insuring masculinity
Cryopreservation of sperm dates to the 1950s. Today, private sperm banks and fertility clinics cryopreserve sperm for private customers for all kinds of reasons. Little is known, however, of why individual men cryopreserve their sperm. The invisibility of the existing practices of sperm storage is mirrored in the ethnographic literature. Based on qualitative interviews with 30 men, this article analyzes how talking about sperm storage invokes ima…
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