Monica Konrad is a Bye-Fellow of Girton College and Director of the PLACEB-O Research Orbital at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

List of Figures

Preface

PART I: THE SECRETS IN THE GIFT

Chapter 1. What is Concealed Inside an Anonymously Donated Gamete?

• Incoexistence
• Inside Out
• ART, Exteriorisation and Forms of Facelessness
• Future Feminisms
• 'Cosmic Egg' Revisited
• Ova Donors and Recipients
• Finding Method in the Oblique
• Implicit Links and Multiple Audiences

Chapter 2. Anonymity and the Way of Juxtaposition

• Anonymity/taboo
• Anonymity/openness
• Anonymity/reciprocity
• Anonymity/partibility
• Anonymity/transilience

PART II: IN THE NAME OF THE UN-NAMED

Chapter 3. Donors I

• Come Superovulate!
• Free Gift Emerging
• 'Not a Hardship at All'
• Testimonies of Assistance
• Intimately Impersonal
• And Free Gift Receding
• Becoming Special
• Prestige and 'Fame'
• 'It's Something I Must Do!'
• Summary Link

Chapter 4. Donors II

• Categories of De-identification and Degrees of Anonymisation
• Strong, Indeterminate and Weak Anonymity
• Knowledge Outcomes and the Form of the Return Gift
• Neither Inalienable nor Forgettable
• Remote Parenting?
• Negotiated Maternity and the Ambiguous Progenetrix

Chapter 5. Donors III

• Donating Agency, Extension and Intersubjective Spacetime
• Reproducibility and Relations of Non-relations
• Odelle: Genes by Proxy
• Policy Link - Penny: Relations as Ripple Effects
• Policy Link - Rita: Donating Adoption
• Policy Link - Meena: Receiving Pardon
• Summary Link
• Dispossession, Effraction and Nontraceability
• What Goes Round Comes round
• What Goes around Comes around (Again)

Chapter 6. Recipients I

• Gift Elasticity and the Infertility Industry
• Egg-sharing, Egg-giving and Egg Donation
• Anonymity, Kinship Distance and 'Poison' in the Gift
• 'Like with Like' and the Equivalence of Matching
• Degrees of Information and Informational Gaps
• The Idea of 'Donor-release'
• Mismatching
• 'You See What You Want to See'
• Blood Food Lines
• Summary Link

Chapter 7. Recipients II

• Accountability and Blood Manipulations
• Revealing-while-keeping the Secret (Ella's Effacement)
• Whatever Happened to You?
• Money Manipulations and Ova Pathways
• Taming Contingency (I): Ova Pathways and Directing Flow
• Taming Contingency (II): Ranking between Recipients
• How Ova and Embryo Pathways Make Half-siblings
• Policy Link
• Summary Link

Chapter 8. Recipients III

• Hyper-kinship within a Remaindered World
• Eliciting Hyperembryo
• Re-donation, Refusal and 'Disowning Decisions'
• Sacrificial Keeping-while-giving and Donation to Research
• Obviating a Compounded Life
• Liquidating the Third Party
• Re-donation as Continuous Gifting
• Summary Link

PART III: APPLICATIONS

Chapter 9. Unconcealing Extensional Transilience

• Hyper-embryo into Infinite Partibility and the Sourcing of Embryonic Stem Cells
• Policy Link
• Transilient Kinship and Embryo Donor-conceived Children
• Summary Link

Chapter 10. Unconcealing Regenerative Transilience

• Spotlight on the Final Frontier
• Envisioning the Problem of Ovarian Tissue and the Life-giving Death
• Reconstituted Persons and the Extensional Imaginary
• How it is Imagined Breath Circulates between Persons
• How it is Imagined the Unborn Sibling Blood-donor Child Will Make New Life
• Discussion

Chapter 11. Conclusion: Relations of Non-relations

Appendix I: Donor Biographical Profiles
Appendix II: Recipient Biographical Profiles
Appendix III: Treatment Protocol

Bibliography

Index