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Kroløkke, Charlotte

Global Fluids : The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value / Charlotte Kroløkke. - 1 online resource (206 p.) - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 39 .

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781785338922 9781785338939

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781785338939 doi

LCCN: 2018023952

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human reproduction.
Human reproductive technology.
Reproductive technology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.

Subjects--Index Terms: Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality, Sociology.

LC Class. No.: RG133.5 RG133.5

Dewey Class. No.: 618.1/7806