Blood Is Thicker than Water: Policing Donor Insemination and the Reproduction of Whiteness

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Blood Is Thicker than Water: Policing Donor Insemination and the Reproduction of Whiteness

Hypatia
Volume 22, Issue 2 (May 2007): Special Issue: The Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and the Regulation of the Gendered Body
pages 143–161
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb00986.x

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Faculty Associate
College of Nutrition and Health Promotion
Arizona State University

On the most general level, this essay addresses the ways race is deployed in biomedical solutions to infertility. Szkupinski Quiroga begins with general assertions about fertility technology. She then explores how fertility technology reinforces biological links between parents and children and argues that most options reflect and privilege white kinship patterns and fears about race mixing. She illustrates these observations with interviews she has collected.

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