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The Oocyte Economy - The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs (Hardcover)
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The Oocyte Economy - The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs (Hardcover)
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In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries
have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro
fertilization 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 either donated or frozen their
oocytes or received those of another woman---to trace how the
history of human oocytes' perceived value 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, Waldby examines the
global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients
and the often 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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