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The Reproductive Body at Work: The South African Bioeconomy of Egg Donation book cover

1st Edition

The Reproductive Body at Work The South African Bioeconomy of Egg Donation

By Verena Namberger Copyright 2019
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates and research subjects, and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding calls for a comprehensive analysis of how the contemporary intersection of neoliberal capitalism and the... Read more

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

Biography

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

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