@inbook{b3eea346121d410f8efa239eae51a0ed,
title = "Labouring the Medical: Female Bodies for Sale on the Contemporary Stage",
abstract = "This chapter examines how performance and theatre at the start of the twenty-first century stage and explore the ethical implications of {\textquoteleft}clinical labour{\textquoteright}. In Guinea Pigs on Trial, 2015-16, by Sh!t Theatre (UK), the two female performers recount their real-life experiences of trying to earn money through volunteering to participate in clinical trials. Meanwhile, Vivienne Franzmann{\textquoteright}s play Bodies and Satinder Chohan{\textquoteright}s Made in India, both staged in 2017 in the UK, explore international surrogacy. Together these case studies suggest an entanglement of women{\textquoteright}s bodies, medicine, forms of clinical labour and neoliberal economies on the contemporary stage. The female, often racialised and {\textquoteleft}othered{\textquoteright} body, is performed in order to consider medical and social forms of exploitation, dependency, intersectional feminist politics and labour. ",
keywords = "Cross-racial surrogacy, Feminised labour, Clinical trials, Biocapital, Bioprecarity",
author = "Gianna Bouchard",
year = "2023",
month = nov,
day = "2",
doi = "10.5040/9781350234291.0012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781350234260",
series = "Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues",
publisher = "Bloomsbury Publishing",
pages = "75–92",
editor = "Vivian Appler and Meredith Conti",
booktitle = "Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance Volume 2",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}