Thought Leader Profile
Diane Tober
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging; and Documentary Filmmaker/Founder, Moonchaser Productions, LLC.Diane Tober is an assistant adjunct professor at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging, and faculty at the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health and the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality, the commodification of the body, science and technology studies, bioethics, and social and reproductive justice. In 2014, she launched The OVADO Project - an international investigation into egg donors' experiences in the global market for human eggs. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she is now examining how the different regulatory and medical settings in the US and Spain intersect with human biomarkets. She has conducted field research in Iran, Spain, and the United States.
Her book, Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families (2018), explores the intersections between the sperm banking industry, the men who provide sperm, and the single women and lesbian couples who use donor sperm to conceive a child. Tracing the changes in the use of assisted reproductive technologies from the 1990s to today, Romancing the Sperm investigates the role technology plays in the changing meanings of family.
In addition to her research, Diane is also producer / director of the documentary film The Perfect Donor, currently in post-production.
Speaker at FiRe 2017
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Posted on Tue Mar 14, 2023, 2:13 am
Once and Future Feminist - Boston Review -
Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2023, 8:00 am
An Ad In My College Paper Led Me To Investigate The Dark Side Of Egg Donation... -
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Feminist Paradoxes - Boston Review -
Posted on Wed Oct 2, 2019, 8:04 am
Researching the Risks of Donating Human Eggs | The Takeaway - WNYC Studios -
Posted on Fri Aug 23, 2019, 7:00 am
Column: Paying women to donate their eggs for research is still a terrible id... -
Posted on Fri May 4, 2018, 7:00 am
The Benefits and Risks of Egg Donation and Freezing - KQED -
Posted on Thu Oct 19, 2017, 7:00 am
Is Egg Donation Dangerous? - Should I Donate My Eggs? - Redbook -
Posted on Fri Jun 10, 2016, 7:00 am
The Price (and Politics) of Women's Eggs - Undark Magazine -
Posted on Thu Jan 21, 2016, 8:00 am
ADHD, dyslexia, and selecting "perfect donors" - Psychology Today