Eggonomics

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address.

Autorentext

Diane Tober is Associate Professor at The University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also the author of Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families.

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of terms and abbreviations

Introduction: Golden Eggs

Chapter 1: Frozen Futures

Chapter 2: The Perfect Donor

Chapter 3: Egg Machines

Chapter 4: Sunny Side Up

Chapter 5: Passports and Cryotanks

Chapter 6: Poached

Chapter 7: Cracked

Chapter 8: Egg Babies and Bio-Moms

Conclusion: Just Eggs

Index