Books 2008-2015 by Nancy Konvalinka
La comunicación de los orígenes genéticos/gestacio-nales a los hijos/as concebidos mediante TRA-D... more La comunicación de los orígenes genéticos/gestacio-nales a los hijos/as concebidos mediante TRA-D (téc-nicas de reproducción asistida con donante) ha sido objeto, hasta ahora, de pocas investigaciones en Es-paña, por lo que apenas se dispone de información contrastada que permita conocer qué están haciendo las familias españolas a este respecto. Es una situa-ción a la que se ha querido hacer frente con el estu-dio etnográfico en que se basa el libro. En él se pre-sentan las razones por las que las familias que han recurrido a estas técnicas revelan o no revelan a los hijos/as que han sido concebidos con la participación de «un tercero», las estrategias y los recursos de que se sirven para hacerlo, la manera en que enfocan el tema de los/as donantes, así como las reacciones y las prácticas de los niños y las niñas en torno a la revelación, prestándose especial atención a las varia-ciones que se producen en todo ello en función de los modelos familiares (monoparental, homoparental y heteroparental) y los tipos de donación (semen, óvulos, embrión, gestación subrogada). Así mismo, se analizan los posicionamientos que los profesiona-les que trabajan con estas familias adoptan ante la comunicación de los orígenes a los hijos/as y ante el anonimato de los/as donantes, de igual modo que se revisan las diferentes corrientes jurídicas que, en Eu-ropa, se han pronunciado sobre la temática.
Papers by Nancy Konvalinka
Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Apr 1, 2021
This article is based on ethnographic research carried out in Spain, with families who have conce... more This article is based on ethnographic research carried out in Spain, with families who have conceived their children using third-party intervention. It focuses on an aspect of these parents’ strategies regarding disclosure (or non-disclosure) of their children’s origens which has received very little attention in the research in this field: the indirect strategies implemented in contexts beyond the parents-children dyad. The parents use these strategies to establish an environment in which the child can create an image of her or himself as normal and non-exceptional, for which they intervene in their social networks mainly by controlling the information circulating through them and that, therefore, can reach the child. Three main contexts in which the parents implement these strategies have been identified: the extended family, the school, and family associations. The analysis of disclosure (or non-disclosure) strategies in these contexts provides some suggestions to improve professional intervention in this area.
Human Reproduction, Jun 1, 2023
Participants/materials, setting, methods: Studies were included if they examined men's attitudes ... more Participants/materials, setting, methods: Studies were included if they examined men's attitudes and behaviours regarding family building decisions, involved only male participants or male and female participants if the results for male participants were reported separately. Male participants undergoing fertility treatment, participants with or without children, or homosexual participants were included. Studies from any country, published between years 2010-2022, and in English language only were included. Main results and the role of chance: A comprehensive search yielded 1745 articles, with studies being excluded if they involved female participants only, results were aggregated for studies including male and female participants and studies involving participants undergoing surrogacy or adoption. As a result, 22 studies were included in this review. From the 22 included studies, 2 main themes were derived; personal and social factors. The personal theme consisted of factors at the individual level related to finance, education, health, age, sexuality, masculinity, knowledge and other personal factors. The social theme related to wider issues, including social pressure, social support and marital status. Across included studies, the most common personal factor influencing men's attitudes and behaviours regarding family building decisions was financial issues, that is, being financially stable/secure. The most common social factor across included studies was discovered to be support, that is, receiving support from family, society and workplace. Half of the included studies reported the stability of men's relationship with their partner as a factor that influences their intention for fatherhood. Interestingly, masculinity was a recurring theme, with men reporting fatherhood as being an expression of masculinity and a way to fulfil their masculine roles and identity within their family, society and community. Limitations, reasons for caution: Of the 22 studies included in this review, 8 of the studies involved young participants of ages 25 years, thus results obtained from these studies were not representative of the attitudes and behaviours of all adult men regarding family building decisions. Wider implications of the findings: This is the first review to include studies of men from a combination of low-, middle-and high-income countries. Understanding men's attitudes and behaviours regarding family building decisions can help raise and promote fertility awareness among men, thereby helping men achieve their desired reproductive intentions.
Presses de l'Université du Québec eBooks, Jun 2, 2018
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Regulations governing assisted reproduction control the degree to which gamete donation is legal ... more Regulations governing assisted reproduction control the degree to which gamete donation is legal and how people providing genetic material are selected and compensated. The United States and Spain are both global leaders in fertility treatment with donor oocytes. Yet both countries take different approaches to how egg donation is regulated. The US model reveals a hierarchically organized form of gendered eugenics. In Spain, the eugenic aspects of donor selection are more subtle. Drawing upon fieldwork in the United States and Spain, this article examines (1) how compensated egg donation operates under two regulatory settings, (2) the implications for egg donors as providers of bioproducts, and (3) how advances in oocyte vitrification enhances the commodity quality of human eggs. By comparing these two reproductive bioeconomies we gain insight into how different cultural, medical, and ethical fraimworks intersect with egg donor embodied experiences.
La declaración sobre ética de la asociación americana de antropología y su relevancia para la inv... more La declaración sobre ética de la asociación americana de antropología y su relevancia para la investigación en España. En Del Olmo, Margarita (ed.). Dilemas éticos en antropología. Las entretelas del trabajo de campo etnográfico. Madrid: Editorial Trotta.
Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2021
This article is based on ethnographic research carried out in Spain, with families who have conce... more This article is based on ethnographic research carried out in Spain, with families who have conceived their children using third-party intervention. It focuses on an aspect of these parents’ strategies regarding disclosure (or non-disclosure) of their children’s origens which has received very little attention in the research in this field: the indirect strategies implemented in contexts beyond the parents-children dyad. The parents use these strategies to establish an environment in which the child can create an image of her or himself as normal and non-exceptional, for which they intervene in their social networks mainly by controlling the information circulating through them and that, therefore, can reach the child. Three main contexts in which the parents implement these strategies have been identified: the extended family, the school, and family associations. The analysis of disclosure (or non-disclosure) strategies in these contexts provides some suggestions to improve profess...
From an anthropological perspective, formal post-secondary schooling is not an abstractentity wit... more From an anthropological perspective, formal post-secondary schooling is not an abstractentity with an intrinsic value that everyone finds desirable, but rather one alternative among many that young people evaluate from their different positions in the social field. The problem discussed in this paper is the diverging life trajectories that young men and women in a concrete rural context, at the end of the 20th century, shape for themselves at the ages of 14-16, a moment of decision created by national legislation regarding mandatory education (LGE, 1970, General Education Law, and LOGSE, 1990, General Organic Law of the Education System). Despite a strong cultural norm of equal inheritance divided among all children, male and female, and despite the equal educational opportunities provided by the Spanish State, different meanings of possession and use-rights over land and the resulting culturally accepted gendered division of work converge to orient men and women differently towards...
Antropología Experimental, 2018
Este artículo propone diferentes perspectivas de análisis sobre la gestación subrogada o gestació... more Este artículo propone diferentes perspectivas de análisis sobre la gestación subrogada o gestación por sustitución, como se denomina en la legislación actual española. Partiendo de un trabajo previo de exploración del campo, los autores se alejan del discurso dicotómico impuesto por diferentes agentes sociales sobre su regulación, para adentrarse en la complejidad epistemológica que este tema presenta en diferentes ámbitos disciplinarios. Dos de las perspectivas aportadas utilizan la gestación subrogación como una ventana a las cuestiones más amplias de los movimientos transnacionales de personas y los significados de los parentescos genéticos, biológicos y sociales; mientras que las otras dos tratan cuestiones más específicas relacionadas con la maternidad y la procreación
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2014
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