“It’s a Trash”: Poetic Responses to the Experiences of a Mexican Egg Donor
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18432/R2QG9QKeywords:
poetic inquiry, reproductive tourism, Mexico, Canada, transnational, egg donation, found poetry,Abstract
This paper explores the use of found poetry as interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of transnational egg donation, focusing upon the fertility services industry in Cancun, Mexico. Our source is an audio-recorded interview conducted with Maria, a young Mexican woman who struggles to maintain her integrity as a single mother donating eggs to a fertility clinic. Drawing upon Maria’s story, we experiment with three forms of found poetry as a method for listening deeply to her voice. In this paper, we share our research process, poems, and reflections.
References
Bochner, A. (2000). Criteria against ourselves. Qualitative Inquiry, 6, 278-291.
Cherry, A.L. (2014). Rise of the reproductive brothel in the global economy: Some thoughts on reproductive tourism, autonomy, and justice. U. Pa. JL & Soc. Change, 17, 257.
Downie, Jocelyn, & Baylis, Françoise. (2013). Transnational trade in human eggs: Law, policy, and (in)action in Canada. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41(1), 224-239.
Glesne, C. (1997). That rare feeling: Re-presenting research through poetic transcription. Qualitative Inquiry, 3(2), 202-221.
Hirshfield, J. (1997). Nine gates: Entering the mind of poetry. New York: Harper Perennial.
Inhorn, Marcia C. (2011). Globalization and gametes: Reproductive ‘tourism,’ islamic bioethics and middle eastern modernity. Anthropology and Medicine, 18(1), 87-103.
Nancy, J-L. (2006). Multiple arts: The muses II. (S. Sparks, Ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Orr, G. (2002). Poetry as survival. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Paz, O. (1995). The double flame: Love and eroticism. New York: Harcourt Brace.
Paz, O. (1999). Itinerary: An intellectual journey. (J. Wilson, Trans.). San Diego: Harcourt.
Pennings, G. (2002). Reproductive tourism as moral pluralism in motion. J Med Ethics, 28, 337-341.
Rich, A. (1993). What is found there: Notebooks on poetry and politics. New York: W. W. Norton.
Schurr, C., & Walmsley, H. (2014). Reproductive tourism booms on Mexico's Mayan riviera. International Medical Travel Journal.
Siegel, D. (2007). The mindful brain: Reflection and attunement in the cultivation of well-being: W.W. Norton.
Stewart, Sheila. (2012). Poetry: The edge of knowing. Creative Approaches to Research, 5(2), 105-118.
Walmsley, H., Cox, S., & Leggo, C. (2015). Listening deeply: Understanding experiences of reproductive tourism through poetic inquiry. Creative Approaches to Research., 8(3).
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with Art/Research International agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication and the right to sublicense the Contribution, in the form in which it is published by the journal, to others under the terms and conditions of the of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) that allows others to download the work and share the work with others with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal, but they cannot change the work in any way or use any part of the work commercially.
b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive public distribution and display of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
d. Authors wishing to include items (such as images or other media, or any creative works of others whether previously published or not) must contact the original copyright holder to obtain explicit permission to publish these items in Art/Research International. Writing permission should include: the title(s) of any copyrighted work, original place of publication if applicable, and an acknowledgement of having read Art/Research International's copyright notice. Authors are responsible for obtaining this permission and keeping it in their own records for later verification.
