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Almeling, Rene. "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Comparing Egg and Sperm Donors" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103689_index.html>

Almeling, R. , 2006-08-10 "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Comparing Egg and Sperm Donors" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103689_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Although listing a child for sale in the local paper's classified section is unthinkable, and it is illegal to sell organs in the United States, there is a proliferation of advertisements recruiting young women and men to sell eggs and sperm. These advertisements are placed by organized donation programs whose paying clients use reproductive technologies to conceive children, thereby creating a 21st century medical market in genetic material. Eggs and sperm are symmetrical bodily goods, each constituting one half of the reproductive material needed to create life, which allows for a comparative analysis of the structure and experience of egg and sperm donation. This paper draws on interviews conducted with staff and donors at four programs in California to analyze gendered bodily commodification in egg and sperm donation. I argue that if a reproductive cell's origin in a woman's body or a man's body determines its status as thing or person, product or service, commodity exchange or gift exchange, then these distinctions will shape the experiences of the women and men selling genetic material. This paper contributes to debates in the sociology of gender about the relationship between biological differences among women and men and the gendered norms attributed to these differences and debates in economic sociology about how social factors affect the expansion of the market.

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