Alexandra D'Ubaldo-Gauffin

Short presentation

I am a PhD student at the Centre for Gender Research with an interest in medicine and reproduction from a sociocultural perspective. My project investigates fertility and infertility care in Sweden beyond conventional medicine. Using ethnographic methods, I explore how non-conventional medical practices are motivated and how they relate to gender.

Keywords

• reproduction
• non-conventional medicine
• biomedicine
• medical anthropology
• ethnography
• STS
• care
• temporality

Biography

My educational background is in gender studies and social anthropology. I have taught the undergraduate courses Work and Family and Sexualities and Bodies. I have also served as coordinator and chair of research seminars at the Centre for Gender Research. In addition, I am a member of the Family and Kinship research group.

Beyond academia, I have worked with mental, sexual, and reproductive health and rights in roles such as project manager and education manager.

Research

Drawing on gender studies and medical anthropology, my project investigates fertility and infertility care in Sweden beyond conventional medicine. Using ethnographic methods, I explore how non-conventional medical practices are motivated, how they relate to gender and how (in)fertilities are understood and enacted. I am particularly interested in what these practices (re)produce.