Nodes of Desire

Michal Nahman (1)

1 UWE Bristol - University of the West of England [Bristol]

This article presents qualitative research conducted in an Israeli ova `extraction' clinic in Romania. Following on from a piece written by Jyotsna Gupta and published in this journal in February 2006, this article asks what kinds of feminist alliances can or should be made in the arena of reproductive technologies. In conversation with Gupta, the author asks whether `an ethic of universal human dignity' is possible or desirable. This article looks to the voices of Romanian egg sellers themselves as a source of theoretical and political direction for transnational feminists who try to think about responses to reproductive technologies.

Mots clés: agency; choice; feminist alliances; ova donation; ova epistemologies; transnational feminism

Michal Nahman. Nodes of Desire. European Journal of Women's Studies, 2008, 15 (2), pp.65-82. ⟨10.1177/1350506807088068⟩. ⟨hal-00571315⟩