Becoming Donor-Conceived: The Transformation of Anonymity in Gamete Donation

Amelie Baumann

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Becoming Donor-Conceived

The Transformation of Anonymity in Gamete Donation

Amelie Baumann
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2021: Frontlist Collection

In the series KörperKulturen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457313

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About this book

While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in Germany and the UK, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification.

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Amelie Baumann works as a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a member of the CRC Affective Societies. She completed her doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen in 2020 and was part of the interdisciplinary research project Reconfiguring Anonymity, funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation. Her research focuses on medical anthropology and kinship studies.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Contextualising donor conception and anonymity Open Access Download PDF	23
2. Research and analysis Open Access Download PDF	57
3. The right to know Arguments, histories, debates Open Access Download PDF	79
4. Public stories and new networks Donor-conceived activism Open Access Download PDF	115
5. Micropolitics of not-knowing Imagining continuities and relations Open Access Download PDF	147
6. When the cat has been let out of the bag Managing kinship trouble Open Access Download PDF	173
7. Connections you might (not) make Mandatory and voluntary registers Open Access Download PDF	203
8. Infrastructuring DNA Commercial genetic testing Open Access Download PDF	245
9. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	281
References Open Access Download PDF	297
List of abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	329
List of figures Open Access Download PDF	331
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	333

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Sperm Donation; Donor Conception; Anonymity Kinship; Family; Law; Medicine; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology of Medicine; Medical Ethics; Sociology of Family

eBook

Published: November 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839457313