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

Hypatia 22 (2):143 - 161 (2007)
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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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