Neither Sacred nor Unholy, Just Workers
The Cyborg Work of Surrogates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2489787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruna Kern Graziuso (0000-0001-9074-5847, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Issue | 64 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos Pagu (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-8333 • E-ISSN: 1809-4449 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/18094449202200640021 |
| OpenAlex | W4285291704 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0104-83332022000100514 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper analyzes the practice of surrogacy, in which a woman carries someone else's baby, focusing on the gestational-labor process of these women, called 'surrogates'. To present them as hybrid figures, I use Donna Haraway's concept of cyborg as a heuristic resource. The stigma of the financial compensation for surrogates is analyzed through theoretical contributions about sex work - along with Goffman's theatrical metaphors - to discuss how the idealized role of who a surrogate should be is linked to the ideal morality of a sacred woman. The gestational labor process is analyzed as a hybrid form of productive and relational work, demonstrating how surrogates negotiate limits between Zelizer's hostile worlds of market and intimacy. The findings I have presented suggest that surrogates live between two worlds and, in different ways, negotiate their limits, while they live with the idealized role that people expect of them
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Morality · Negotiation · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |