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A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans'
motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for
donor egg IVF Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the
country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including
fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the
lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of
an expensive privatized "baby business," the Czech Republic has
emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a
plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of
the price. Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of
white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences
when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this
diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation
of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems
nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility
journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of
contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier
reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope
ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the
procedures are framed as "holidays." The pitch of combining a
vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF
cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations
as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange
place. Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans'
journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes
reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by
complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation,
better health care, and technological success.
This book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by
art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in
education and training and supporting their pathways to the
creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex
intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship,
particularly in relation to young creatives from socially,
economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on
extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations,
and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a
detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural
challenges of marginality. The book explores the local and global
contexts through which art-based social enterprises (ASEs) operate
and within which they attempt - often successfully - to improve
access to education and work for emerging creatives. It also
attends to the findings generated through engaging with the lived
experiences of the staff and young creatives involved in our ASE
case studies, in order to understand both the challenges and
impacts of the ASE model on young people's education, training, and
employment pathways. The book focuses on three broad themes;
precarious youth and digital futures, material practice and
sustainable economies, and cultural citizenship in the urban
fringe. In exploring these themes, the book contributes to debates
about the limits, possibilities and challenges that attach to, and
emerge from, an ASE model and highlights the ways in which these
models can contribute to young people's well-being, engagement,
education and training, and work pathways. More broadly, it
examines the possibilities of art as a means of social and cultural
engagement. In the context of the precarious future of the creative
industries, this book emphasise the ways in which young artists are
building alternative economic and cultural models that support both
individual pathways and collective change. This book will move the
field forward with a critical lens that engages closely with
experience and the lived realities of juggling multiple priorities
of social, economic and artistic goals.
A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans'
motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for
donor egg IVF Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the
country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including
fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the
lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of
an expensive privatized "baby business," the Czech Republic has
emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a
plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of
the price. Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of
white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences
when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this
diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation
of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems
nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility
journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of
contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier
reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope
ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the
procedures are framed as "holidays." The pitch of combining a
vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF
cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations
as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange
place. Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans'
journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes
reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by
complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation,
better health care, and technological success.
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