Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Theorizing bioprecarity and the body
- Part II Precarity in the making of kin
- Part III Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces
- Part IV Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy
- Part V Bioprecarity and eugenicist histories
- Conclusions
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2026
Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Theorizing bioprecarity and the body
- Part II Precarity in the making of kin
- Part III Bioprecarity and bodies as pieces
- Part IV Bioprecarity in the transgression of boundaries of intimacy
- Part V Bioprecarity and eugenicist histories
- Conclusions
- Index
Summary
The introduction outlines the meaning and rise of bioprecarity and the bioprecariat, here understood as those who seek help with bodily interventions and those who provide such interventions. It discusses core concepts of importance for this volume, including shifting understandings and regulations of the body and bodily interventions, questions of bodily ownership and of agency in the age of the commodification of the body and the issue of power and unequal relations in the seeking and providing of help around bodily interventions. It also provides an overarching introduction to the chapters presented in this volume.
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- Bodily interventions and intimate labourUnderstanding bioprecarity, pp. 1 - 8Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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