voice to the intimate and often heartbreaking stories of women who donate their eggs, thereby offering new insights into reproductive justice, racial inequalities and the politics of health in contemporary assisted reproduction. A captivating and often stunning read, this book is an immensely valuable contribution to feminist writing on reproduction politics and the fertility industry - particularly so in the post-Dobbs era."
Lucy van de Wiel, Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London, author of
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging"As America and countries around the world contemplate free markets in human eggs - and other states contemplate declaring frozen embryos people -
Eggonomics is a necessary road map for the future where every body has a price."
Scott Carney, investigative journalist, and author of
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers"An essential read for anybody interested in the contemporary biopolitics of reproduction and gender, and in the political economy of reproductive innovation."
Catherine Waldby, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, author of
The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs"
Eggonomics highlights the experiences of egg donors, the desired race practices in the industry, racial inequities in access to and compensation, and the market driven practices in assisted reproductive technology. It exposes the international variations in egg donation practices; and the need for regulation and having standards of practice for donors and intended parents."
Diana Namumbejja Abwoye FNP-BC, Board Chair Our Bodies Ourselves and member of the international advisory committee of Surrogacy360
"Thank goodness for Diane Tober's thorough, brilliant, and eminently readable ethnography of egg donors. Her research on the medical, physical, and social impacts of egg donation elaborates the experiences of the donors who essentially bank-roll the multi-billion dollar IVF industry. This fascinating read offers a long overdue understanding of the impact of IVF. Tober's book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary kinship and family formations, as well as the disgraceful ways that young women are treated by the industry."
S. Lochlain Jain, Visiting Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at King' College London, and a Research Affiliate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg, author of
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
