While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns "being donor-conceived" into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for "being donor-conceived" to become a powerful identification.

About the Author
Amelie Baumann is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universitat Berlin, where she is an associated member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Affective Societies". She completed her doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen in 2020 and was part of the interdisciplinary research project "Reconfiguring Anonymity", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Her research focuses on medical anthropology, the anthropology of ageing and kinship studies.


Book Information
ISBN 9783837657319
Author Amelie Baumann
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 666g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 15mm