Rhonda Shaw

Rhonda Shaw teaches in the School of Social & Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2002 she has been researching body gifting practices including shared breastfeeding, ovarian egg donation, surrogate pregnancy arrangements, and organ donation and transplantation processes. Rhonda's work has been published widely in international journals. Alison Bartlett teaches Women's Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her previous books include Breastwork:...See more

Rhonda Shaw teaches in the School of Social & Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2002 she has been researching body gifting practices including shared breastfeeding, ovarian egg donation, surrogate pregnancy arrangements, and organ donation and transplantation processes. Rhonda's work has been published widely in international journals. Alison Bartlett teaches Women's Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her previous books include Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding (2005) and Jamming the Machinery: contemporary Australian women's writing (1998). Her research on cultural meanings of maternity, embodiment and breasted knowledge has been widely published. See less