Description: In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization in order to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes-the reproductive cells specific to women. In The Oocyte Economy Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews with scientists, clinicians, and women who have donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman to trace how the history of the valuing of human oocytes intersects with the biological and social life of women. Demonstrating how oocytes have come to be understood as discrete and scarce biomedical objects open to valuation, management, and exchange, Waldy examines the global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients and the younger and poorer donors. With this exploration of the oocyte economy and its contemporary biopolitical significance, Waldby rethinks the relationship between fertility, gendered experience, and biomedical innovation.
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EAN: 9781478004721
UPC: 9781478004721
ISBN: 9781478004721
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Book Title: The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: The Oocyte Economy: the Changing Meaning of Human Eggs
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Zoology, Biology
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 340 g
Subject Area: Children & Family
Author: Catherine Waldby
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
