H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2021

WoMoGeS · Women’s movements and gestational surrogacy: engaging, debating and policy making

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-04-23 → 2021-04-22
Финансиране от ЕС: 244 269 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF-GF

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Накратко на български

Жените в САЩ, Мексико и Италия и техните позиции към сурогатното майчинство се анализират чрез техните политически искания и стратегии. Разбирането на тези различни гледни точки помага за по-включващ обществен дебат и по-внимателно създаване на закони в Европа.

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Резултати накратко

Women’s movements and gestational surrogacy: engaging, debating and policy making

WoMoGeS addresses the role of Women's Movements (WMs) in debates and policy making on gestational surrogacy (GS) policies. WoMoGeS stems from the observation that in recent years in several EU countries women have mobilized against GS, which is a fast-growing transnational reproductive practice and a new form of labor for women. WMs are primary actors in public discourses and policy making on procreation and this study aims to reveal how they contribute to the specific emerging phenomenon of GS, which poses several crucial questions on women's and children health, inequality between surrogates and intended parents (IP), individual emancipation and commodification of human life. WoMoGeS analyses how WMs in USA, Mexico and Italy frame GS, what theories they use, what their policy demands are, and how their organize strategic alliances - within WMs and with other societal groups. Understanding the diversity of perspectives and demands from WMs in different countries, ideological conflicts and transnational platforms of alliances, is important for enhancing the quality and inclusiveness of the debate on GS in Europe, as well as to avoid that radicalised positions could be uncritically received in policy making. The study found that the debate is polarized with abolitionist and regulatory demands based respectively on two macro frames: commodification and autonomy of women. The study also found that the regulatory approach, which is dominant in policy making internationally, is often endorsed with a pragmatic attitude towards the unstoppable diffusion of the fertility market and the need to protect women and children involved in it.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Gestational surrogacy (GS) is transnational practice of assisted reproduction increasingly undergone by European citizens in Member States and Third Countries. Women’s Movements (WMs), primary actors in policies on human reproduction, understand GS either as a form of commodification of women and children, or as an empowering opportunity for women in poor countries. WMs are forging alliances with other stakeholders (LGBTQI, pro-life, and private actors) to influence decision makers to abolish or to regulate GS. WoMoGeS analyzes the ‘politics of signification’ on GS of WMs in 2 developed countries, US, and Italy, and 2 developing countries, India and Mexico, to reveal variety of diagnostic, prognostic and motivational frames, their policy demands and strategic alliances across different social contexts, and the interplay between discourses and policy making at country-level and transnationally. By carrying out a comparison of 4 context-specific case-studies and engaging WMs and GS stakeholders, this project aims to hinder the risk that GS activism reproduces the same polarizing dynamics as in the debate on prostitution, and the risk that WMs’ perspectives in developing countries, main providers of surrogate mothers, are silenced by more visible WMs in developed countries. WoMoGeS aims to promote dialogue between WMs and GS stakeholders, catalyze European policy making on GS that considers diversity of thought, and to propose mature reflections on assisted reproduction based on scientific information. Training and supervision by top experts on GS at UT and on WMs at LUMSA will enable me to continue skill development started during my PhD on WMs’ contribution to gender-related discourses, strengthen my ability to work across different fields of Sociology, and acquire new competences in Bioethics and comparative social analysis, with the goal to consolidate my profile as sociologist expert in gender studies and critical analysis of social movements' discourses.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

LIBERA UNIVERSITA MARIA SANTISSIMAASSUNTA · RomaКоординаторИталия
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM · AustinСъединени щати