[Anarchafeminists] Feminist lecture on politics of payment for egg donation tomorrow

[Gail Chester]

Prof Anne Philips of the LSE is lecturing tomorrow evening on whether women should be paid for donating eggs to others for IVF treatment.  No2Eggsploitation (no2eggsploitation.wordpress.com), which is campaigning against plans to increase payment, is planning to hold an informal meeting/social after the lecture. All are welcome.

=====

 

'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it' Bodies as possessions and 
objects

Anne Phillips, Professor of Gender and Political Theory, LSE

A Gender Institute and Department of Government Public Lecture

* Wednesday 29 September, 2010
* 6.30pm
* Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
* Chair: Professor Emily Jackson, Department of Law, LSE
* Open to all - no booking required. Followed by an informal drinks 
reception at the Gender Institute, 5th Floor, Columbia House.

Click here for more details: 
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/events/eventsProfiles/bodiesAsPossessions.aspx

Abstract
We commonly use the language of body ownership as a way of claiming personal 
rights, though we do not normally mean it literally. Most people feel uneasy 
about markets in sexual or reproductive services, and though there is a 
substantial global trade in body tissues, the illicit trade in live human 
organs is widely condemned. But what, if any, is the problem with treating 
bodies as resources and/or possessions? Is there something about the body 
that makes it particularly inappropriate to apply to it the language of 
property, commodities, and things? Or is thinking the body special a kind of 
sentimentalism that blocks clear thinking about matters such as 
prostitution, surrogate motherhood, or the sale of spare kidneys?

The related question is whether there is something about feminism that makes 
it particularly resistant to the body as property. The critique of 
objectification suggests there is, but there is also an influential strand 
that defends the commodification of sexual and reproductive services and 
queries the idea of the body as special. In this lecture, Anne Phillips 
defends the idea that the body is special, but argues that debates about 
body ownership are best understood as debates about market relations, not 
simply claims about the body per se.

For speaker biographies and a list of all forthcoming Gender Institute 
events, visit 
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/events/eventsSchedule10.aspx

For information on how to get to LSE, accessibility maps and how to get 
around campus, please visit 
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/Home.aspx

The Gender Institute (LSE) was established in 1993 and brings together 
social sciences and humanities approaches in order to address key problems 
in gender studies transnationally. We provide a leading role internationally 
in combining innovative theory and epistemology with policy concerns. We 
provide a vibrant research environment and train the largest number of 
postgraduates qualifying in Gender Studies anywhere in Europe.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/anarchafeminists/attachments/20100928/567ab7cb/attachment.htm>