Global Fluids

The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value

Charlotte Kroløkke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781785338922 (ISBN)

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Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusability and extensibility to discuss the moral limits of their global distribution.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	20 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781785338922 / 9781785338922
Zustand	Neuware