Verena Namberger

The Reproductive Body at Work (eBook, ePUB)

The South African Bioeconomy of Egg Donation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Reproductive Body at Work explores the relations between value production, labour and the body in one particular realm of the global bioeconomy: the South African bioeconomy of 'egg donation'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429675881
• Artikelnr.: 56321334

Autorenporträt

Verena Namberger completed her PhD in Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Marx, Biotechnology and the Life Sciences: Rewriting BioCapital?
1.2 Time for Renewed Conversations: Capitalism and the Body
1.3 The Global Business of Egg Donation
1.4 Case Study and Methods: Diffracting Egg Donation in South Africa
1.5 Outline and Chapter Structure
Chapter 2: Valuable Eggs and Lively Capital in South Africa
2.1 Conditions of Possibility: Technologies Travel as well as Business
Models
2.2 The Value(s) of the 'Gift of Life'
2.3 Into the Messiness of Commodification: Egg Fetishism
2.4 Value in Motion: Reproductive Travellers and Logistics
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3: Deconstructing Nature's 'Latent Value': Labour in Egg Donation
3.1 Feminist Interventions With and Against Work: Wages for Egg Donation?
3.2 Labour Matters in South Africa: 'Having Eggs is not Enough'
3.3 Fertility Workers
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4: Bodies Made in South Africa
4.1 Mind the Gap: Bodies in the Life Sciences __ Bodies in Capitalism
4.2 In/fertile Bodies: When Procreation Meets Efficiency
4.3 On Beauty: Visualisation Technologies, Aesthetics, and Looks
4.4 Bodies of Data and Genetics
4.5 In Transit: Biological Cargo, Body Containers
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5: Body Formation in Bioeconomic Times
5.1 The Crux of the Matter: Labour
5.2 Picturing '(Re)productive Bodies at Work'
Chapter 6: Conclusion