Intimate publics: Race, property, and personhood

American Literature

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 859-885

  Wiegman, Robyn ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 19744376837     PISSN: 00029831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00029831-74-4-859     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. I draw my information on this case from four newspaper sources: Jim Yardley, "Health Officials Investigating to Determine How Woman Got the Embryo of Another," New York Times, 31 March 1999, B3
2. Michael Grunwald, "In Vitro, in Error - and Now, in Court; White Mother Given Black Couple's Embryos Will Give One 'Twin' Back," Washington Post, 31 March 1999, A01
3. Jim Yardley, "Sharing Baby Proves Rough on 2 Mothers," New York Times, 30 June 1999, B1
4. and David Rohde, "Biological Parents Win in Implant Case," New York Times, 17 July 1999, late edition, B3
5. Yardley, "Sharing Baby."
6. Fasano is not, however, the first white woman to give birth to two children genetically classified as racially different. In 1995 a Dutch fertility clinic mistakenly fertilized a woman's eggs with the sperm of both her husband and a black man. She gave birth to twin boys and the white couple is now raising both of them (see Dorinda Elliot and Friso Endt, "Twins - with Two Fathers; The Netherlands: A Fertility Clinic's Startling Error," Newsweek, 3 July 1995, 38)
7. The case is also referenced by Yardley, "Health Officials," and discussed briefly by Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (New York: Vintage, 1997), 252. Further references to Killing the Black Body will be cited parenthetically in the text as KBB
8. On the figure of the vampire as it relates to race and reproduction, see Donna Haraway, "RACE: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture," Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (New York: Routledge, 1997), 213-65
9. Sarah Franklin, Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception (London: Routledge, 1997)
10. Sarah Franklin and Helen Ragone, eds., Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
11. Valerie Hartouni, Cultural Conceptions: On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997)
12. Maureen McNeil, Ian Varcoc, and Steven Yearley, eds., The New Reproductive Technologies (London: Macmillan, 1990)
13. Michelle Stansworth, ed., Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood, and Medicine (Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press, 1987)
14. and Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies (London: Routledge, 1992)
15. Sarah Franklin, "Romancing the Helix: Nature and Scientific Discovery," in Romance Revisited, ed. Lynne Pearce and Jackie Stacy (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1995), 64
16. For critical conversation about this case, see Deborah Grayson, "Mediating Intimacy: Black Surrogate Mothers and the Law," Critical Inquiry 24 (winter 1998): 525-46
17. Valerie Hartouni, "Breached Birth: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Reproductive Discourse in the 1980s," Configurations 1 (winter 1994): 73-88
18. Randy Frances Kandel, "Which Came First: The Mother or the Egg? A Kinship Solution to Gestational Surrogacy," Rutgers Law Review 47 (fall 1994): 165-239
19. and Mark Rose, "Mothers and Authors: Johnson v. Calvert and the New Children of Our Imaginations," Critical Inquiry 22 (summer 1996): 613-33
20. Grayson, "Mediating Intimacy," 538
21. Franklin, "Romancing the Helix," 70
22. See David Schneider, American Kinship: A Cultural Account (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968)
23. and Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney, eds., Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis (London: Routledge, 1995)
24. See George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1998)
25. To trace various assessments about the radical and recuperated aspects of multiculturalism's deployment in the public sphere, see David Theo Goldberg, ed., Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 1994)
26. Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield, eds., Mapping Multiculturalism (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996)
27. Amy Gutmann, ed., Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994)
28. Jeff Escoffier, "The Limits of Multiculturalism," Socialist Review 21.3/4: 61-73
29. Gayatri Spivak and Sneja Gunew, "Questions of Multiculturalism, " in The Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Simon During (London: Routledge, 1993), 193-202
30. and Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren, eds., Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies (New York: Routledge, 1994)