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

Description du projet

Un examen plus approfondi des différentes facettes de la gestation pour autrui

La gestation pour autrui (GPA) est devenue une question controversée dans le domaine de la procréation assistée, attirant l’attention des citoyens européens des États membres et des pays tiers. Les mouvements de femmes, qui influencent les politiques liées à la reproduction humaine, ont des points de vue divergents sur la GPA. Certains y voient une marchandisation des femmes et des enfants, tandis que d’autres y voient une opportunité d’émancipation pour les femmes des pays défavorisés. Dans ce contexte, le projet WoMoGeS, financé par le programme MSCA, examine les politiques entourant la GPA en Italie et aux États-Unis (pays développés), ainsi qu’en Inde et au Mexique (pays en développement). Grâce à une analyse comparative de ces études de cas spécifiques au contexte, WoMoGeS entend apporter un éclairage sur les cadres de diagnostic, de pronostic et de motivation utilisés par les mouvements de femmes.

Objectif

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.

Champ scientifique

Programme(s)

Thème(s)

MSCA-IF-2017 - Individual Fellowships

Appel à propositions

H2020-MSCA-IF-2017

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Régime de financement

MSCA-IF-GF - Global Fellowships

Coordinateur

LIBERA UNIVERSITA MARIA SANTISSIMAASSUNTA

Contribution nette de l'UE

€ 244 269,00

Adresse

VIA DELLA TRASPONTINA 21
00193 Roma
Italie

Région

Centro (IT) Lazio Roma

Type d’activité

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Liens

Contacter l’organisation

Participation aux programmes de R&I de l'UE

Réseau de collaboration HORIZON

Coût total

€ 244 269,00

Partenaires (1)

Partenaire

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM

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