Laura Perler
Biographic Data
| ID | 327527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Perler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Perler |
| SIGNATURE | PERLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4172-8682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lively and Unstable Implosions
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
Screening pasts for healthy futures
What kind of life is considered reproducible in a fertility clinic? What is the specific understanding of technology and progress and what does this have to do with the desirability of certain bodies? What does egg donation have to do with selection? These are the guiding questions of this article, in which I explore the idea of the ‘healthy’ baby in third-party reproduction in Spain. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork in a fertility clinic in Va…
Geographies of reproductive justice
Contemporary struggles for reproductive rights across the globe once more show how politics shape intimate reproductive experiences. The intersectional feminist concept of reproductive justice has become an important political and theoretical agenda to address power relations in the realm of reproductive rights. We argue that the justice-based approach of the concept can serve as an umbrella for debates taking place in diverse subdisciplinary fie…
Quality of life and associated factors in Swiss trans people
This study shows lowered mental QoL and associations of low mental QoL with psychological distress, low self-esteem and stressful life events in trans individuals in Switzerland. The findings concur with the Gender Minority Stress Model and point out that medical transition must not be viewed in isolation but must be embedded in the framework of integrative psychosocial support
Intimate Voices in Transnational Reproductive Markets
The idea of this special issue, which foregrounds the experiences and perspectives of egg donors and surrogates, emerged following the completion of our respective doctoral research on the reproduc
In/Visible - A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain
The result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer, in this photo essay we aim to visualize the medical process of egg donation and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spain. By extending their biographies beyond the moment of extraction, we shed light on the intertwined messiness of medical procedures and everyday life and the precarious circumstances in which egg donation takes place in Spain today. Our aim is to highli…
Reproductive geopolitics
Building on work in feminist geopolitics, we discuss how the governance of in/fertility affects the value assigned to different bodies and the question whose bodies and lives are considered as worthy of reproducing in Mexico. To reveal the geopolitical entanglements of past and present forms of reproductive governance, we investigate the transnational connections of Mexico’s fertility network with Spain and the United States of America. We juxtap…
Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy
Research on cross-border reproductive care has shown how the geographical, historical, economic and political contexts in which egg donation takes place shape this transnational practice. As many women offer their oocytes due to their precarious conditions, they become seen as 'bioavailable bodies'. The presence of these bioavailable bodies is key to the emergence of global egg donation hotspots. We argue that feminist research needs to go beyond…
Selecting women, taming bodies? Body ontologies in egg donation practices in Spain
According to the Spanish law of assisted reproduction, women intending to donate eggs must be “in good psychophysical health” and “do not suffer from genetic or infectious hereditary diseases transmissible to the offspring” (chapter II, article 5). What a “good” psychophysical health condition is, what the “transmissible diseases” are, and what counts as disease at all remains contested. In this paper, we explore how these broad legal criteria ma…
Kinderwunschklinik
Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy
Research on cross-border reproductive care has shown how the geographical, historical, economic and political contexts in which egg donation takes place shape this transnational practice. As many women offer their oocytes due to their precarious conditions, they become seen as 'bioavailable bodies'. The presence of these bioavailable bodies is key to the emergence of global egg donation hotspots. We argue that feminist research needs to go beyond…
Selecting women, taming bodies? Body ontologies in egg donation practices in Spain
According to the Spanish law of assisted reproduction, women intending to donate eggs must be “in good psychophysical health” and “do not suffer from genetic or infectious hereditary diseases transmissible to the offspring” (chapter II, article 5). What a “good” psychophysical health condition is, what the “transmissible diseases” are, and what counts as disease at all remains contested. In this paper, we explore how these broad legal criteria ma…
Geographies of reproductive justice
Contemporary struggles for reproductive rights across the globe once more show how politics shape intimate reproductive experiences. The intersectional feminist concept of reproductive justice has become an important political and theoretical agenda to address power relations in the realm of reproductive rights. We argue that the justice-based approach of the concept can serve as an umbrella for debates taking place in diverse subdisciplinary fie…
Reproductive geopolitics
Building on work in feminist geopolitics, we discuss how the governance of in/fertility affects the value assigned to different bodies and the question whose bodies and lives are considered as worthy of reproducing in Mexico. To reveal the geopolitical entanglements of past and present forms of reproductive governance, we investigate the transnational connections of Mexico’s fertility network with Spain and the United States of America. We juxtap…
Kinderwunschklinik
Selecting women, taming bodies? Body ontologies in egg donation practices in Spain
According to the Spanish law of assisted reproduction, women intending to donate eggs must be “in good psychophysical health” and “do not suffer from genetic or infectious hereditary diseases transmissible to the offspring” (chapter II, article 5). What a “good” psychophysical health condition is, what the “transmissible diseases” are, and what counts as disease at all remains contested. In this paper, we explore how these broad legal criteria ma…
Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy
Research on cross-border reproductive care has shown how the geographical, historical, economic and political contexts in which egg donation takes place shape this transnational practice. As many women offer their oocytes due to their precarious conditions, they become seen as 'bioavailable bodies'. The presence of these bioavailable bodies is key to the emergence of global egg donation hotspots. We argue that feminist research needs to go beyond…
Reproductive geopolitics
Building on work in feminist geopolitics, we discuss how the governance of in/fertility affects the value assigned to different bodies and the question whose bodies and lives are considered as worthy of reproducing in Mexico. To reveal the geopolitical entanglements of past and present forms of reproductive governance, we investigate the transnational connections of Mexico’s fertility network with Spain and the United States of America. We juxtap…
Quality of life and associated factors in Swiss trans people
This study shows lowered mental QoL and associations of low mental QoL with psychological distress, low self-esteem and stressful life events in trans individuals in Switzerland. The findings concur with the Gender Minority Stress Model and point out that medical transition must not be viewed in isolation but must be embedded in the framework of integrative psychosocial support
Intimate Voices in Transnational Reproductive Markets
The idea of this special issue, which foregrounds the experiences and perspectives of egg donors and surrogates, emerged following the completion of our respective doctoral research on the reproduc
In/Visible - A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain
The result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer, in this photo essay we aim to visualize the medical process of egg donation and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spain. By extending their biographies beyond the moment of extraction, we shed light on the intertwined messiness of medical procedures and everyday life and the precarious circumstances in which egg donation takes place in Spain today. Our aim is to highli…
Screening pasts for healthy futures
What kind of life is considered reproducible in a fertility clinic? What is the specific understanding of technology and progress and what does this have to do with the desirability of certain bodies? What does egg donation have to do with selection? These are the guiding questions of this article, in which I explore the idea of the ‘healthy’ baby in third-party reproduction in Spain. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork in a fertility clinic in Va…
Geographies of reproductive justice
Contemporary struggles for reproductive rights across the globe once more show how politics shape intimate reproductive experiences. The intersectional feminist concept of reproductive justice has become an important political and theoretical agenda to address power relations in the realm of reproductive rights. We argue that the justice-based approach of the concept can serve as an umbrella for debates taking place in diverse subdisciplinary fie…
Lively and Unstable Implosions
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
Political science (7 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Donation (4 works) · Egg donation (4 works) · Gynecology (4 works)