Global Fluids

The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-892-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

In the fertility and cosmetics industries, women’s body products – such as urine, eggs, and placentas – have moved from being seen as waste to becoming valuable ingredients. Taking a sociological and anthropological perspective, the author focuses in particular on the role that countries like Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, and Japan play in the reproductive products industry, and discusses the moral limits of the cultural and rhetorical trajectories that turn women’s body products into internationally mobile substances.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroløkke, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Pharmaindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Scholarly Conversation

Chapter 2. Urine. From Waste to Hormone Shots

Chapter 3. Oocytes: From Waste to Assets

Chapter 4. Placentas: From Waste to Regeneration

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kroløkke, Charlotte
Charlotte Kroløkke is a Professor in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark, with special responsibilities in cultural analyses of reproductive medicine. She has headed several interdisciplinary research projects on assisted reproduction and the fertility industry, and has published widely within the field of feminist communication and cultural analyses of reproduction.