Is Information Power? Comparing Anonymous and Open Egg Donation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2643155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Speier (The University of Texas at Arlington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 130-141 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.4294 |
| OpenAlex | W2620497839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Both the Czech Republic and the United States are destinations for cross-border reproductive travellers. For North Americans, including Canadians, who opt to travel to the Czech Republic for IVF using an egg donor, they are entering a fertility industry that is anonymous. This makes the Czech Republic different from other European countries that necessitate open gamete donation, as in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. For reproductive travellers coming to the United States for fertility treatment, there is a wider menu of choices regarding egg donation given the vastly unregulated nature of the industry. More recently, professionals in the industry are pushing for 'open' egg donation. For intended parents traveling to either location seeking in vitro fertilization using an egg donor, they must choose whether or not to pursue open or closed donation. As pre-conception parents, they navigate competing discourses of healthy parenting of donor-conceived offspring. They must be reflexive about their choices, and protective when weighing their options, always keeping their future child's mental, physical and genetic health in mind. Drawing from ethnographic data collected over the course of six years in the United States and the Czech Republic, this paper will explore both programs, paying special attention to the question of how gamete donation and global assisted reproductive technologies intersect with different notions about healthy pre-conception parenting
Czech · Destinations · Donation · Egg donation · Ethnography · Fertility · Gynecology · Political science · Population · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Demography · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Technologies
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Embodied Progress
With Child in Mind
The Elusive EmbryoHow Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies
Sex Cells
Extractions
Stigma
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Ethnography in/of the World System
Saints, scholars and schizophrenics
Secrecy and Openness in Donor Insemination
Selling Genes, Selling Gender
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |