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Author:   Verena Namberger
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9780367670832

ISBN 10:   0367670836
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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Verena Namberger completed her PhD in Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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