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Ingvill Stuvøy

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Ingvill Stuvøy

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Political Science

ingvill.stuvoy@ntnu.no
+4773590673 Bygg 7, 7557, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
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About

Ingvill Stuvøy is an associate professor in sociology. Her main research interests include reproduction, gender and inequality, technology, economy and biopolitics. Stuvøy holds a PhD in sociology from NTNU and a BA and MA from University of Copenhagen. Stuvøy's PhD thesis Parenthood at a price. Accounting for the viability of transnational surrogacy (2018) examined the social meaning of money in transnational surrogacy, taking as her starting point the travels undertaken by Norwegian citizens in order to have a child born to them abroad by a surrogate mother. As part of her postdoc, Stuvøy worked on different forms of mobility and migration, including the "repro-migration" she studied in her PhD thesis. 

Main research areas are surrogacy; reproduction; assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs); body; gender; stratification and inequality; repro-migration; money; (bio)economy; welfare state; qualitative methods; feminist theory; economic sociology; sociology of the family.

Competencies

  • Body
  • Feminist theory
  • Gender
  • Qualitative methodologies
  • Reproduction technology
  • Sexuality
  • Sociology of economics
  • Surrogacy

Publications

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2025

  • Øversveen, Emil Mortensrud; Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Stuvøy, Ingvill; Tjora, Aksel Hagen. (2025) Sosiologisk teori. Fagbokforlaget Fagbokforlaget
    Textbook
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2025) Feministisk teori. Fagbokforlaget
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Tjora, Aksel; Øversveen, Emil Mortensrud. (2025) Sosiologisk teori som sosiologisk blikk. Fagbokforlaget
    Chapter

2024

  • Førde, Kristin Engh; Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2024) Reproduktive problemstillinger. Intervju med Marit Melhuus. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Interview Journal
  • Førde, Kristin Engh; Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2024) Leder. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Editorial
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2024) Eggdonasjon fra forbud til tilbud. Den biopolitiske konfigureringen av en ny form for reproduktiv assistanse. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Article in business/trade/industry journal

2023

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2023) The assistants of reproduction.
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Myong, Lene. (2023) Biopolitics of Parental Access: Cross-Readings of Transnational Adoption and Transnational Surrogacy in Denmark and Norway. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2023) Reproduktive reiser: Om å begrepsfeste et grensekryssende fenomen. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2021) Fra idé til fokus. Å utvikle en god problemstilling. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2021) Teoriens rolle i bacheloroppgaven. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Tøndel, Gunhild; Tjora, Aksel. (2021) En smak av forskning. Bacheloroppgaven som prosjekt, prosess og produkt. Cappelen Damm Akademisk Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Non-fiction book
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Kirpichenko, Maria; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Lie, Merete; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Bioteknologiske framtider. Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Short communication
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Tøndel, Gunhild; Tjora, Aksel. (2021) Bacheloroppgaven som en første smak av forskning. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2021) Reproduksjon og sosiologi i grenseland. Hochschilds møte med surrogatimarkedet. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
    Academic article

2020

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Myong, Lene. (2020) En utopi om familiens avskaffelse og nye reproduktive fellesskap. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT)
    Book review

2019

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) 1,6 barn og andre trøblete tall.
    Website (informational material)
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) Governing parental desires and vulnerabilities: Affective bio politics in the context of Norwegian citizens' repro-migration. Nordic Journal of Migration Research
    Academic article

2018

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Parenthood at a price. Accounting for the viability of transnational surrogacy. NTNU
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Accounting for the money-made parenthood of transnational surrogacy. Anthropology & Medicine
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Troublesome reproduction: surrogacy under scrutiny. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
    Academic article

2016

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2016) Surrogati: Reproduksjon i globalt farvann. Fagbokforlaget
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2013

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Reproduksjon i grenseland. Fett
    Popular scientific article

Journal publications

  • Førde, Kristin Engh; Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2024) Reproduktive problemstillinger. Intervju med Marit Melhuus. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Interview Journal
  • Førde, Kristin Engh; Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2024) Leder. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Editorial
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2024) Eggdonasjon fra forbud til tilbud. Den biopolitiske konfigureringen av en ny form for reproduktiv assistanse. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Myong, Lene. (2023) Biopolitics of Parental Access: Cross-Readings of Transnational Adoption and Transnational Surrogacy in Denmark and Norway. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Kirpichenko, Maria; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Lie, Merete; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Bioteknologiske framtider. Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Short communication
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2021) Reproduksjon og sosiologi i grenseland. Hochschilds møte med surrogatimarkedet. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Myong, Lene. (2020) En utopi om familiens avskaffelse og nye reproduktive fellesskap. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT)
    Book review
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) Governing parental desires and vulnerabilities: Affective bio politics in the context of Norwegian citizens' repro-migration. Nordic Journal of Migration Research
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Accounting for the money-made parenthood of transnational surrogacy. Anthropology & Medicine
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Troublesome reproduction: surrogacy under scrutiny. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Reproduksjon i grenseland. Fett
    Popular scientific article

Books

  • Øversveen, Emil Mortensrud; Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Stuvøy, Ingvill; Tjora, Aksel Hagen. (2025) Sosiologisk teori. Fagbokforlaget Fagbokforlaget
    Textbook
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Tøndel, Gunhild; Tjora, Aksel. (2021) En smak av forskning. Bacheloroppgaven som prosjekt, prosess og produkt. Cappelen Damm Akademisk Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Non-fiction book

Part of book/report

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2025) Feministisk teori. Fagbokforlaget
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Tjora, Aksel; Øversveen, Emil Mortensrud. (2025) Sosiologisk teori som sosiologisk blikk. Fagbokforlaget
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2023) The assistants of reproduction.
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2023) Reproduktive reiser: Om å begrepsfeste et grensekryssende fenomen. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2021) Fra idé til fokus. Å utvikle en god problemstilling. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2021) Teoriens rolle i bacheloroppgaven. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Tøndel, Gunhild; Tjora, Aksel. (2021) Bacheloroppgaven som en første smak av forskning. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
    Chapter
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2016) Surrogati: Reproduksjon i globalt farvann. Fagbokforlaget
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Parenthood at a price. Accounting for the viability of transnational surrogacy. NTNU
    Doctoral dissertation

INFORMASJONSMATR

  • Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) 1,6 barn og andre trøblete tall.
    Website (informational material)

Teaching

Courses

  • SOS1016 - Sociology and Society
  • SOS2000 - Theories and Models in Sociology
  • SOS2010 - Inequality and Welfare

Outreach

2024

  • Lecture
    Rafstedt, My; Rau Steuernagel, Carolina; Stuvøy, Ingvill; Nalenga, Georges. (2024) Abortrettigheter under angrep: Demokrati uten retten til å bestemme over egen kropp? . Senter for bærekraft i helseutdanningene, Universitetet i Os Panelsamtale , Oslo 2024-03-08 -

2022

  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2022) Pricing reproductive time and experience. A qualitative exploration of new forms of marketized reproductive services in Norway. University of Tampere Reproductive Futures , Tampere 2022-06-15 - 2022-06-17
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2022) An unfamilial third-party. Configurations of assistance in third-party reproduction. University of Tampere Gender studies research seminar , Tampere 2022-06-14 - 2022-06-14
  • Lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2022) Å sette pris på graviditeten. Om marked og reproduksjon i Norge. Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet 8.mars genusstafett , Uppsala 2022-03-08 - 2022-03-08
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2022) Sustaining the Norwegian welfare state. "Greening" the management of the population. Senter for kjønnsforskning, Universitetet i Oslo NORA 2022 , Oslo 2022-06-20 - 2022-06-22

2021

  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill; Myong, Lene. (2021) The Biopolitics of Parental Access: Cross-readings of transnational adoption and surrogacy in the Scandinavian welfare states. KjønnsforskningNÅ 2021-05-27 - 2021-05-27

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Tøndel, Gunhild; Stuvøy, Ingvill; Sætnan, Ann Adel Rudinow. (2020) When is a House (not) a Home? Querying the power at stake in negotitations of home and care. EASST/4S EASST/4S Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science , Digital/Prague 2020-08-18 - 2020-08-21

2019

  • Lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) 1,6 barn og andre trøblete tall. Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning, UiO Kvinnedagen 8.mars: Hvem skal bære (frem) velferdsstaten? Befolkningspolitikk i et bredt perspektiv , Oslo 2019-03-08 - 2019-03-08
  • Academic lecture
    Myong, Lene; Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) (Re)Producing the Scandinavian Welfare State Through Selective Pronatalism. NORA Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses, and Feminist Politics , University of Island 2019-05-22 - 2019-05-24
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) Dør vi ut? Fallende fertilitet (paneldebatt). Litteraturhuset i Trondheim Sakprosafestivalen , Trondheim 2019-11-01 - 2019-11-01
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) Sosiale skillelinjer, klasse og konflikt (paneldebatt). Sosiologifestivalen, NTNU og Sosiologforeningen Sosiologifestivalen , Trondheim 2019-09-24 - 2019-09-24
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2019) En hjelpende livmor? (Bio)politikk, surrogati og potensialet i den reproduktive assistansen. Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, UiT Kjønnsforskning NÅ! , Tromsø 2019-11-13 - 2019-11-15
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Øversveen, Emil; Stuvøy, Ingvill; Toft, Maren. (2019) Sosiale skillelinjer, klasse og konflikt (panelsamtale). Trøndersosiologene Sosiologifestivalen 2019 , Trondheim 2019-09-24 - 2019-09-24

2018

  • Lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Panelist on "The Future of Reproduction". Institutt for Tverrfaglige Kulturstudier, NTNU The Future of Reproduction , Trondheim 2018-09-06 - 2018-09-06
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Governing parental affection: Biopolitics in a time of transnational reproduction. ReproSoc, University of Cambridge Remaking Reproduction: The Global Politics of Reproductive Technologies , Cambridge 2018-06-27 - 2018-06-29
  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Surrogati: Derfor er ikke kjendisenes babymetode lovlig i Norge. Dagbladet.no Dagbladet.no [Newspaper] 2018-03-07
  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Avdekker desperasjon, traumer og svekkede rettigheter hos surrogatmødre: - Mamma er det sant at du har solgt barnet ditt?. Dagbladet Dagbladet [Newspaper] 2018-09-23
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Å sette (en) pris på graviditet. Norsk Sosiologiforening Vinterseminaret , Hafjell 2018-02-02 - 2018-02-04
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2018) Governing parental affection: Biopolitics in a time of transnational reproduction. Linköping Universitet Nordic Migration Research , Norrköping 2018-08-15 - 2018-08-17

2017

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2017) Å sette (en) pris på graviditet. Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap, NTNU Forskningskafe, Forskningsdagene , Trondheim 2017-09-25 - 2017-09-25
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2017) Paneldeltakere i debatt om "Verdien av et liv". Litteraturhuset Verdien av et liv , Trondheim 2017-05-03 - 2017-05-03

2016

  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2016) Surrogati: I desember blir Lasse og Øyvind foreldre til et barn som er født av en surrogat i USA. Kvinner og Klær (KK) Kvinner og Klær (KK) [Internet] 2016-11-12
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2016) At a heartbeat: A topography of embodied money in transnational surrogacy. The Association of American Geographers Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting , San Francisco 2016-03-29 - 2016-04-02

2015

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2015) Baby til prisen av et hus: symbolske goder og bytter i transnasjonal surrogati. Trøndersosiologiene og professor Aksel Tjora ved ISS Sosiologifestivalen 2015 , Dokk-huset, Trondheim 2015-09-03 - 2015-09-03
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2015) In/Out of the New Family/Economy: Arranging kin and money in transnational surrogacy arrangements. American Anthropological Association 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2015 , Denver, Colorado 2015-11-18 - 2015-11-22
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2015) When the happy parents are parent-consumers: calculative parents in transnational surrogacy. Visiting sosiologists at UC Berkeley Brown-bag colloquium with visiting sociologists at UC Berkeley , Berkeley, California 2015-04-20 - 2015-04-20
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2015) Sharing the womb: Reproduction on the verge of (collaborative) consumption. European Sociological Association European Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2015 , Praha 2015-08-25 - 2015-08-28

2014

  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2014) The Missing (Genetic) Link: parenthood, genes, and money in transnational surrogacy. Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley The Embryo and Global Reproductive Technologies , Berkeley, California 2014-11-18 - 2014-11-18
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2014) Surrogacy as change!. Gender NOW, LLH Trøndelag Kjønnsmangfold og Skeiv Verden Gender Day Panel discussions on gender, identity and power , Galleri KiT 2014-03-08 - 2014-03-08
  • Lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2014) Ut og kjøpe baby: når penger baner veien for babylykken. Phd-stipendiatene ved Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, NTNU Forskningsfronten , Dragvoll, Trondheim 2014-04-30 - 2014-04-30
  • Lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill; Smietana, Marcin. (2014) Reproductive tourism and transnational surrogacy. Dept. of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley Gender, Race, Nation and Health , Berkeley, California 2014-11-25 - 2014-11-25

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Bodywork and the Global Market in the 21st Century: How surrogacy broadens consumer choice and responsibility. European Sociological Association European Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2013 , Torino 2013-08-28 - 2013-08-31
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Livmor til leie: penger og surrogati. Researcher's Night og Det medisinske fakultet, NTNU Researcher's Night: Bill.mrk.: Søker livmor/egg ønskes kjøpt , Byscenen, Trondheim 2013-09-27 - 2013-09-27
  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Babylykke til salgs. Gemini Gemini [Internet] 2013-08-01
  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Beretningen om en varslet død. Morgenbladet Morgenbladet [Newspaper] 2013-08-02
  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) Beretningen om en varslet død. Morgenbladet Morgenbladet [Internet] 2013-08-02
  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2013) The standpoint of the privileged surrogacy consumer - an impossible feminist starting point?. Norsk Sosiologforening Vinterseminaret, Norsk Sosiologforening , Skeikampen 2013-01-25 - 2013-01-27

2012

  • Academic lecture
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2012) Bodywork and the Global Market in the 21st Century: How surrogacy broadens consumer choice and responsibility. Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU Reproduction at the crossroads , Trondheim 2012-11-29 - 2012-11-30
  • Interview
    Stuvøy, Ingvill. (2012) Å provosere seg til spaltene. Klassekampen Klassekampen [Newspaper] 2012-08-25

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