The Familial and the Familiar

Locating Relatedness in Colombian Donor Conception

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ID2151396
AuthorsMalissa Kay Shaw (0000-0002-3994-0302, Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume37
Issue4
Pages280-293
Publication date2018-05-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2017.1371149
PMID28929788
OpenAlexW2755146238
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited22

In this article, I explore how women undergoing in vitro fertilization with familial or anonymous egg donors located relatedness with a donor-conceived child through familial and social identities. Recognizing gametes as substances that contain biological and sociocultural/behavioral traits shaped women's narratives around interconnected notions of the familial and familiar, or the social understanding of biological and social inheritance, and knowledge of the genetic materials involved. Women's narratives of relatedness reflect their relationships with family and society and their desire to reproduce these relationships in their child(ren), a process that reproduces prevailing Colombian social values and notions of ideal citizens

Biology · Developmental psychology · Egg donation · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Narrative · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Studies · Genetics · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology

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