Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più attento alla natura multiforme della maternità surrogata gestazionale
La maternità surrogata gestazionale è diventata una questione controversa nel campo della riproduzione assistita, attirando l’attenzione dei cittadini europei negli Stati membri e nei paesi terzi. I movimenti femminili, influenti nella definizione delle politiche relative alla riproduzione umana, hanno opinioni divergenti sulla maternità surrogata gestazionale. Alcuni la percepiscono come una mercificazione di donne e bambini, mentre altri la vedono come un’opportunità di emancipazione per le donne delle nazioni svantaggiate. In questo contesto, il progetto WoMoGeS, finanziato dalle azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, esamina le politiche che riguardano tale ambito in Italia e negli Stati Uniti (paesi sviluppati) e in India e Messico (paesi in via di sviluppo). Attraverso un’analisi comparativa di questi casi di studio specifici al contesto, WoMoGeS mira a far luce sui quadri diagnostici, prognostici e motivazionali utilizzati dai movimenti femminili.
Obiettivo
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.
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MSCA-IF-GF - Global FellowshipsCoordinatore
00193 Roma
Italia