What Have Men Got to Do with It? Masculinity and the Outsourcing of Reproductive Labor

• In Event: Intimate Labor: Reproductive Politics and Representations

Abstract

In order to challenge the global injustice in the field of the outsourcing of reproductive labor we need to also consider men’s positions and practices within the outsourcing households. I argue in this paper that starting from relational and interdependent notions of self, rather than from Western conceptions of the (male) isolated and “self-sufficient” individual, alters the debate on outsourcing and responsibility therein, that are needed for transformation. Examples from empirical research in Austria will be included in the talk.

Presenter

• Ulrike Prattes, Australian Catholic University