Designing Desire, Deleting Futures: The Global Fertility Industry and the Price of Perfection
暫譯: 設計渴望，刪除未來：全球生育產業與完美的代價

Pande, Amrita

Designing Desire, Deleting Futures: The Global Fertility Industry and the Price of Perfection
  • 出版商: Summit Valley Press
  • 出版日期: 2027-06-15
  • 售價: $2,790
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,650
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 026206314X
  • ISBN-13: 9780262063142

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商品描述

A groundbreaking ethnography of reproductive technology, reproductive labor, and fertility industries across Asia and Africa.

In Designing Desire, Deleting Futures, Amrita Pande traces the flows of reproductive labor and reproductive technologies across Asia and Africa to show how global fertility markets produce, distribute, and constrain reproductive futures. Drawing on an itinerant ethnography conducted between 2012 and 2023, it follows the journeys of egg providers, gestational mothers, and intended parents across multiple clinics and countries, revealing how desires for genetic relatedness and selective reproduction are shaped by intersecting inequalities, postcolonial legacies, and the political economies of global fertility.

The book introduces the unique analytic of the "3Ds" Desire, Design, and Deletability, which describes how parental and societal desires intersect with emerging reproductive technologies to produce futures in which some bodies are prioritized while others are rendered disposable. By centering caste, race, gender, sexuality, and disability, and by foregrounding minority imaginations from the Global South, the book reframes debates about perfectibility, reproductive justice, and the ethics of intervention in human life.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一部開創性的民族誌，探討橫跨亞洲與非洲的生殖科技、生殖勞動與生育產業。

在《Designing Desire, Deleting Futures》中，Amrita Pande 追蹤生殖勞動與生殖科技在亞洲和非洲之間的流動，揭示全球生育市場如何生產、分配並限制生殖未來。全書奠基於 2012 年至 2023 年間進行的流動式民族誌研究，追隨卵子提供者、妊娠代孕者與委託父母穿梭於多家診所及不同國家之間的歷程，揭示人們對基因親緣關係與選擇性生殖的渴望，如何受到交織的不平等、後殖民遺緒，以及全球生育產業政治經濟的形塑。

本書提出獨特的「3Ds」分析框架——Desire（欲望）、Design（設計）與 Deletability（可刪除性）——描述父母與社會的欲望如何與新興生殖科技交織，進而形塑某些身體受到優先對待、而其他身體則被視為可拋棄的未來。透過將種姓、種族、性別、性傾向與身心障礙置於分析核心，並凸顯全球南方少數群體的想像，本書重新框定了關於人類可完美化、生殖正義，以及介入人類生命之倫理的辯論。

作者簡介

Amrita Pande is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is the author of Wombs in Labor, now also the multimedia performance Made in India: Notes from a Baby Farm, which she performs internationally. Her recent books include Birth Controlled; Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University (with Chaturvedi and Daya); and Scripting Defiance (with Ari Sitas et al.).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Amrita Pande 是南非 Cape Town 大學的社會學教授兼研究員。她著有《Wombs in Labor》，該作品目前也改編為多媒體表演《Made in India: Notes from a Baby Farm》，並由她在國際間巡迴演出。她近期的著作包括《Birth Controlled》；《Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University》（與 Chaturvedi 和 Daya 合著）；以及《Scripting Defiance》（與 Ari Sitas 等人合著）。

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