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Voting, oocytes and cosmetics. The three identification milestones for the use of gender in stem cell research in California

Abstract

`titrebThree times a woman: voting, egg donation, cosmetics, and the punctuated gendering of stem cell innovation in California`/titrebThis paper explores a punctuated gendering of biomedical innovation in the California stem cell initiative. I argue that gendered and raced and classed citizenship, biological bodies, and consumption were all called upon to enable and sustain the flow of public and private capital and bodily parts and labour in the stem cell economy that followed the passage of a state initiative to fund pluripotent stem cell research. The paper builds upon my previous work on a biomedical mode of reproduction, and draws on and adds to theories of a gendered division of labour, the commodification of reproduction, and the construction and disciplining of gender in advertising and consumption. I show that these different ways of understanding gender were each active at different points in the innovation pipeline. Although they all relied on intersectional understandings of women’s roles and identities, each of them mobilized a distinct understanding of gender in relation to a different demand of innovation. A gender theoretical pluralism is necessary to make sense of the interactions between biomedical innovation and gender. Similarly, biomedical innovation emerges as a site for the production and reinforcement of evolving repertoires of gendered identities.

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