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'
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'
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
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
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