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Mohr, S. & Herrmann, J. (2022). The politics of Danish IVF: Reproducing the nation by making parents through selective reproductive technologies. BioSocieties, 17, 297-319
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The politics of Danish IVF: Reproducing the nation by making parents through selective reproductive technologies
2022 (English)In: BioSocieties, ISSN 1745-8552, E-ISSN 1745-8560, Vol. 17, p. 297-319Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, we look at how the politics of reproduction take form in Denmarkwhen people are denied access to IVF. Approaching IVF as a selectivereproductive technology, we explore IVF’s selective potential in terms ofreproductive governance and reproductive citizenship by analyzing decisions bythe Danish State Administration about whether people get access to IVF or not.For that purpose, we had access to assessments of people’s inability to parent thatare required by law in case doubts about a person’s ability to parent arise whenthey seek treatment with IVF in Denmark. Through this analysis, we identifythree parenthood and citizenship ideals that characterize reproductive governanceand the politics of reproduction in Denmark: (1) the medically sane/sober selfwhose parenting and societal decisions are not influenced by self-alteringmedical diagnoses and/or treatment, (2) the independent, capable, and productiveself that pursues a meaningful life in societal terms, and (3) the responsible selfthat actively invests into reproductive futures. Based on this analysis, we arguethat people are unduly excluded from reproduction if they are identified as notliving up to these ideals because of the intersections of their gendered, bodily,social, and economic positioning.

Keywords
Assisted reproduction, Denmark, Parenthood, Politics of reproduction, Reproductive citizenship, Reproductive governance, gender, feminism
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82530 (URN)10.1057/s41292-020-00217-1 (DOI)000607371400001 ()2-s2.0-85100219769 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-01-21 Created: 2021-01-21 Last updated: 2022-10-27Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S., Sørensen, B. R., Weisdorf, M., Ben-Ari, E., Hautzinger, S., McSorley, K., . . . Wool, Z. (2021). Discussing Empathy and Critique in the Ethnography of Things Military: A Conversation. Ethnos, 86(4), 694-711, Article ID SI.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Discussing Empathy and Critique in the Ethnography of Things Military: A Conversation
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2021 (English)In: Ethnos, ISSN 0014-1844, E-ISSN 1469-588X, Vol. 86, no 4, p. 694-711, article id SIArticle in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon, England: Routledge, 2021
Keywords
military anthropology, critique, empathy, fieldwork, ethnography, military, militarization
National Category
Social Anthropology
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-76023 (URN)10.1080/00141844.2019.1687551 (DOI)000503931700001 ()
Note

Aarhus University Research Foundation  AUFF-E-2015-FLS-7-7

Available from: 2019-12-19 Created: 2019-12-19 Last updated: 2021-11-18Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. (2021). Sex as medicine?: How Danish war veterans cope with trauma through intimate encounters. In: : . Paper presented at Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century. 4th - 6th of March 2021, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sex as medicine?: How Danish war veterans cope with trauma through intimate encounters
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The existing research on war veterans and sexuality comes overwhelmingly from four disciplines – medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and public health – and is in most cases carried out in military related contexts. This research, though limited in its scope, nevertheless shows the impact that the military institution, deployments to war, and physical and mental injuries from these deployments have on the intimate lives of current and former military personnel. Being diagnosed with PTSD for example increases the likelihood of sexual dysfunction, relationship conflicts, and emotional distance to intimate others. What is more, female military personnel and LGTBQI soldiers are likely to suffer more severely from PTSD, anxiety, and depression due to sexual harassment and homo- and transphobia as part of military service. Yet, what it actually means to live intimacy in light of these chronic conditions and how intimacy is shaped as well as shapes the life of veterans and soldiers impacted by chronic conditions due to their military service is still mostly unknown. This presentation attempts to shed light on militarized intimacies by exploring how Danish war veterans live their sexual lives in light of chronic conditions resulting from their military service. Based on interviews with Danish war veterans and participant observation at a home for veterans as well as relationship courses for current and former military personnel in Denmark, this presentation thus attends to the meaning of sex for coping with chronic conditions as well as the meaning of chronic conditions for the experience of sexual encounters.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, 2021
Keywords
sexuality, gender, masculinity, femininity, feminism, intimacy, medicalization, diagnosis, war, trauma
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-83617 (URN)
Conference
Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century. 4th - 6th of March 2021, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Available from: 2021-04-09 Created: 2021-04-09 Last updated: 2021-06-17Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S., Sørensen, B. R. & Weisdorf, M. (2021). The Ethnography of Things Military: Empathy and Critique in Military Anthropology. Ethnos, 86(4), 600-615
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Ethnography of Things Military: Empathy and Critique in Military Anthropology
2021 (English)In: Ethnos, ISSN 0014-1844, E-ISSN 1469-588X, Vol. 86, no 4, p. 600-615Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Reflecting on the troubled relationship between anthropology and the military, we do so by discussing the underlying epistemological, methodological, and moral claims of the distinction between an anthropology of and an anthropology for the military. Through the term ethnography of things military, we propose to reposition military anthropology as intense engagements with militarisation through empathic immersion in things military. We develop this term through feminist critiques of militarisation and compassion, through discussions of critique and empathy as part of (critical) ethnographic scholarship, and through anthropological debates about the relationality of fieldwork and ethnographer-interlocutor relations. Suggesting that an ethnography of things military relies on empathic engagements with military lifeworlds, we argue that the relationship between empathy and critique in military anthropology should be understood as a continuous collaborative (and not always predictable) process of interrogating military lifeworlds’ frames of reference without necessarily sharing compassion or sympathy for them.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon, England: Taylor & Francis, 2021
Keywords
ethics, fieldwork, militarization, sympathy, feminism
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-76120 (URN)10.1080/00141844.2019.1687553 (DOI)000504389900001 ()
Note

Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond  AUFF-E-2015-FLS-77-HD

Available from: 2020-01-02 Created: 2020-01-02 Last updated: 2021-11-19Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. & Almeling, R. (Eds.). (2020). Men, Masculinities and Reproduction. Taylor & Francis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Men, Masculinities and Reproduction
2020 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2020
Series
NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, ISSN 1890-2138 ; Vol15 (3-4)
Keywords
masculinity, men, reproduction, fertility, infertility, family, fatherhood, sexuality, reproductive technologies
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81964 (URN)
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2021-01-14Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. & Almeling, R. (2020). Men, masculinities, and reproduction - conceptual reflections and empirical explorations. Norma, 15(3-4), 163-171
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Men, masculinities, and reproduction - conceptual reflections and empirical explorations
2020 (English)In: Norma, ISSN 1890-2138, E-ISSN 1890-2146, Vol. 15, no 3-4, p. 163-171Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2020
Keywords
masculinity, reproduction, fertility, masculinity studies, feminism, fatherhood, fertility, infertility, reproductive technologies
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82077 (URN)10.1080/18902138.2020.1831156 (DOI)000710565100001 ()2-s2.0-85092415370 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-12-28 Created: 2020-12-28 Last updated: 2021-11-22Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. (2020). review of: Nurhak Polat, Umkämpfte Wege der Reproduktion. Kinderwunschökonomien, Aktivismus und sozialer Wandel in der Türkei, Bielefeld : transcript , 2018 [Review]. Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde, 153-155
Open this publication in new window or tab >>review of: Nurhak Polat, Umkämpfte Wege der Reproduktion. Kinderwunschökonomien, Aktivismus und sozialer Wandel in der Türkei, Bielefeld : transcript , 2018
2020 (German)In: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde, ISSN 0067-4729, p. 153-155Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Keywords
reproduction, reproductive technology, Turkey, masculinity, gender, biosociality
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81967 (URN)
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2021-03-17Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. (2020). Selfish masturbators?: The Experience of Danish Sperm Donors and Alternatives to the Selfish/Selfless Divide. In: Linda Layne (Ed.), Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to Understanding Morality (pp. 166-181). Berghahn Books
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Selfish masturbators?: The Experience of Danish Sperm Donors and Alternatives to the Selfish/Selfless Divide
2020 (English)In: Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to Understanding Morality / [ed] Linda Layne, Berghahn Books, 2020, p. 166-181Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Turning to the experiences of Danish sperm donors, I argue that the conception of sperm donation as selfish pleasure and commodified practice offers only a limited understanding of what it means to provide semen samples for reproductive donation. Framing masturbation at sperm banks only in light of selfishness, since it involves sexual pleasure and monetary compensation, ignores the intricate interplay between biomedical regulation, modes of production, and men’s gender performativity. As the accounts by Danish men of masturbation at sperm banks show, reproductive donation as both a moral and economic endeavor relies on the control of male masturbation. Rather than only being a selfish undertaking, providing semen samples becomes understandable as a site of biopolitics altering men’s gender identity. The global supply of donor semen is enabled by regulating the affective spaces of male masturbation in which men remake their masculine self-images.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berghahn Books, 2020
Series
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; Vol. 10
Keywords
masculinity, reproduction, sperm, semen, reproductive technologies, sperm donation, feminism
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81971 (URN)978-1-78920-549-7 (ISBN)978-1-78920-550-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2021-01-12Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. (2020). Sperm. Lambda Nordica, 25(1), 155-159
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sperm
2020 (English)In: Lambda Nordica, ISSN 1100-2573, E-ISSN 2001-7286, Vol. 25, no 1, p. 155-159Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborgs universitet, 2020
Keywords
masculinity, reproduction, sperm, semen, reproductive technologies, sperm donation, feminism
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81969 (URN)10.34041/ln.v25.630 (DOI)
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2022-02-10Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. (2020). The performative effects of diagnosis: Thinking gender and sexuality through diagnostic politics. Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, 29(1), 19-32
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The performative effects of diagnosis: Thinking gender and sexuality through diagnostic politics
2020 (English)In: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, ISSN 0907-6182, E-ISSN 2245-6937, Vol. 29, no 1, p. 19-32Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, I suggest the performative effects of diagnosis as an analytical tool to explore the transformations in people’s intimate lives that being diagnosed brings with it. As an analytical term, I understand the performative effects of diagnosis to describe trajectories in people’s intimate lives that emerge in the interplay between a person’s intimate sense of self, that is, their gendered and sexualed self-perceptions, and the logics and norms contained in medical diagnoses. I develop this term in the context of ethnographic research on Danish war veterans’ understandings of and experiences with intimacy and extrapolate it conceptually in this article through scholarship in feminist theory, trans studies, STS, and medical anthropology and sociology. The argument that I make throughout is that the performative effects of diagnosis allows scholars to explore transformations in people’s intimate lives without a foreclosure about the normative dimensions of these transformations. In that sense, rather than only asking how biopolitical and cis- and heteronormative normalcy constitutes itself, the performative effects of diagnosis provide the opportunity to explore how these dimensions are (re)configured and (un)done in and through medicalized intimacies.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, 2020
Keywords
biosociality, identity, intimacy, medicalization, performativity, sexuality
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81957 (URN)10.7146/kkf.v29i1.123447 (DOI)
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2021-03-17Bibliographically approved
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