Anna Molas
@anna-molas.bsky.social
Lecturer in Anthropology at Monash University | First book grant ISRF | Ciència, tecnologia, medicina i reproducció
Photoessay on egg donors in Spain: Laura Perler and Tamara Sánchez Pérez offer a powerful photo essay in which they challenge the in/visibility of egg donors and show the medical process involved and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In/Visible – A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain
The result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer, in this photo essay we aim to visualize the medical process of egg donation and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spai...
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Photoessay on egg donors in Spain: Laura Perler and Tamara Sánchez Pérez offer a powerful photo essay in which they challenge the in/visibility of egg donors and show the medical process involved and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Egg donors in Spain: here I show the vast amount of labor involved in becoming an egg donor in Spain and argues that, although this labor is essential for the generation of value in reproductive bioeconomies, it remains invisible and undertheorized. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Recentering Labor in the Egg Donation Bioeconomy: Egg Donors’ (Re)productive Work and Subjectification in Spain
In 2019, Spanish fertility clinics reached a historical record of ova extractions. A total of 14,521 surgeries were performed to serve the growing egg demand internationally. Here I show how bringi...
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Egg donors in Spain: here I show the vast amount of labor involved in becoming an egg donor in Spain and argues that, although this labor is essential for the generation of value in reproductive bioeconomies, it remains invisible and undertheorized. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Surrogates in California: Ayala, Álvarez and Rivas assert the importance of surrogates experience as a source of professional skills, downplaying its monetary value and placing it within favorable moral frameworks, thus finding cultural legitimacy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bridging Reproductive and Productive Work: The Case of Surrogates in California
In this article, we explore the perspectives of commercial gestational surrogates in California, USA. Women who gestate for others reveal themselves as important agents in the process of giving mea...
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Surrogates in California: Ayala, Álvarez and Rivas assert the importance of surrogates experience as a source of professional skills, downplaying its monetary value and placing it within favorable moral frameworks, thus finding cultural legitimacy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Surrogates in Thailand: Elina Nilsson demonstrates how surrogates im/mobility reveals critical insights into labor conditions and power relations and is formed within the global reproductive industry as well as the specific national context. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy
In response to the changing landscape of transnational surrogacy, the industry has introduced flexible business models requiring women to move within and across borders to act as surrogate mothers....
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Surrogates in Thailand: Elina Nilsson demonstrates how surrogates im/mobility reveals critical insights into labor conditions and power relations and is formed within the global reproductive industry as well as the specific national context. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Surrogates and ED in Ukraine: Polina Vlasenko highlights how women emphasize their economic role as worker-mothers, while clinics employ the framework to hold them accountable for outcomes. A discourse that empowers women yet imposes disciplinary demands. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine
In this article I explore the dual impact of framing egg donation and surrogacy as work in Ukraine’s fertility market. Egg donors, surrogates, and ART professionals use the labor narrative to legit...
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Surrogates and ED in Ukraine: Polina Vlasenko highlights how women emphasize their economic role as worker-mothers, while clinics employ the framework to hold them accountable for outcomes. A discourse that empowers women yet imposes disciplinary demands. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Egg donors in Turkey: Burcu Mutlu shows how practices of secrecy function as strategic tools for invisibilization in the lived realities of Turkish egg donors engaged in an illicit, gendered, and stigmatized form of reproductive labor. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Strategic In/Visibility of Turkish Egg Donors: Reproductive Labor, Secrecy, and Stigma in the Transnational Bioeconomy
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Northern Cypriot clinic, I examine how practices of secrecy function as strategic tools for invisibilization in the lived realities of Turkish egg donors enga...
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Egg donors in Turkey: Burcu Mutlu shows how practices of secrecy function as strategic tools for invisibilization in the lived realities of Turkish egg donors engaged in an illicit, gendered, and stigmatized form of reproductive labor. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Egg donors in Iran: Tiba Bonyad shows how Iranian egg donors articulate their participation in the local egg market through the prism of their economic marginality, gendered responsibilities, and religiously informed beliefs, including divine reward. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward
Despite the economic incentives evidenced in the recruitment strategies of the Iranian fertility industry for egg donors, the official discourse put forward by policymakers conveys egg donation as ...
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Egg donors in Iran: Tiba Bonyad shows how Iranian egg donors articulate their participation in the local egg market through the prism of their economic marginality, gendered responsibilities, and religiously informed beliefs, including divine reward. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Introduction piece by Laura Perler and myself on the three running themes in all the contributions: 1) the importance of situated knowledges, 2) the new labor reconfigurations in the globalised reproductive industry and, 3) the emerging vulnerabilities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Intimate Voices in Transnational Reproductive Markets
Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 43, No. 8, 2024)
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January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Introduction piece by Laura Perler and myself on the three running themes in all the contributions: 1) the importance of situated knowledges, 2) the new labor reconfigurations in the globalised reproductive industry and, 3) the emerging vulnerabilities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Great foreword by Michal Nahman, who situates the relevance of the centering the experiences of reproductive providers in a conext where "women's voices are being silenced in favor of practices that occlude their full participation in social life". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices
Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 43, No. 8, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great foreword by Michal Nahman, who situates the relevance of the centering the experiences of reproductive providers in a conext where "women's voices are being silenced in favor of practices that occlude their full participation in social life". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....