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Global Fluids: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781785338939
DOI
10.1515/9781785338939
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1129209 bytes)
Series
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives; 39
Pages
206\206
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:29:04

Description

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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