Global Fluids: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 39)

Book 21 of 33: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Kroløkke, Charlotte

 
9781785338922: Global Fluids: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 39)
ISBN 10: 1785338927 ISBN 13: 9781785338922
Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1785338927
ISBN 13 
9781785338922
Binding
Library Binding
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206