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Global Fluids

The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value

By: Charlotte Kroløkke

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eBook | 15 July 2018 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"I found this book approachable and clearly written, with the cases Krolokke presents from her ethnographic research adding illustrative context to her theoretical approaches... While clearly not a history, parts of Global Fluids could be used in a history of reproduction course or one on the history of the body as a way to encourage students to think about historical change and continuity regarding bodies and their products." ? Social History of Medicine

"This is sophisticated scholarship that offers original insights into notions of waste and value and their insertion into bio-industries. It is a highly readable, stimulating synthesis of current feminist cultural analysis." ? Andrea Whittaker, Monash University