Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Marx, Biotechnology and the Life Sciences: Rewriting BioCapital?

1.2 Time for Renewed Conversations: Capitalism and the Body

1.3 The Global Business of Egg Donation

1.4 Case Study and Methods: Diffracting Egg Donation in South Africa

1.5 Outline and Chapter Structure

Chapter 2: Valuable Eggs and Lively Capital in South Africa

2.1 Conditions of Possibility: Technologies Travel as well as Business Models

2.2 The Value(s) of the ‘Gift of Life’

2.3 Into the Messiness of Commodification: Egg Fetishism

2.4 Value in Motion: Reproductive Travellers and Logistics

2.5 Summary

Chapter 3: Deconstructing Nature’s ‘Latent Value’: Labour in Egg Donation

3.1 Feminist Interventions With and Against Work: Wages for Egg Donation?

3.2 Labour Matters in South Africa: ‘Having Eggs is not Enough’

3.3 Fertility Workers

3.4 Summary

Chapter 4: Bodies Made in South Africa

4.1 Mind the Gap: Bodies in the Life Sciences __ Bodies in Capitalism

4.2 In/fertile Bodies: When Procreation Meets Efficiency

4.3 On Beauty: Visualisation Technologies, Aesthetics, and Looks

4.4 Bodies of Data and Genetics

4.5 In Transit: Biological Cargo, Body Containers

4.6 Summary

Chapter 5: Body Formation in Bioeconomic Times

5.1 The Crux of the Matter: Labour

5.2 Picturing ‘(Re)productive Bodies at Work’

Chapter 6: Conclusion

About the Author

Verena Namberger completed her PhD in Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany