The commodification of women's bodies in trafficking for prostitution and egg donation

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ID17814462
AuthorsLiliana Acero (0000-0002-5460-3363, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume2
Issue1
Pages25-32
Publication date2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1937-4577 • E-ISSN: 1937-4585
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2979/fab.2009.2.1.25
OpenAlexW2102457225
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

In her paper Border disputes across bodies: Exploitation in trafficking for prostitution and egg sale for stem cell research, Heather Widdows argues that international feminism has been affected adversely by the polarization of debates, that conflicting understandings of exploitation have been obscured by debates on choice and autonomy, and that we must revisit some older categories of feminist analysis to reflect upon and take a coherently feminist stance on current practices of egg donation and trafficking for prostitution. This challenging and richly argued paper raises a number of issues. This response discusses four main themes from the paper. First, the authors paper is largely a call not to forget insights from one main framework among feminists' critical elaborations of Marxism that developed by Pateman (1988), according to whom gender subordination is closely related to the multiple ways in which female labor power is exploited. If we adopt Pateman's perspective, another conceptual distinction that is still relevant can be renewed: the distinction between practical and strategic gender

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