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

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• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsForewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Marx, Biotechnology and the Life Sciences: Rewriting BioCapital?1.2 Time for Renewed Conversations: Capitalism and the Body1.3 The Global Business of Egg Donation1.4 Case Study and Methods: Diffracting Egg Donation in South Africa1.5 Outline and Chapter StructureChapter 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 SummaryChapter 3: Deconstructing Nature’s ‘Latent Value’: Labour in Egg Donation3.1 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 Workers3.4 SummaryChapter 4: Bodies Made in South Africa 4.1 Mind the Gap: Bodies in the Life Sciences __ Bodies in Capitalism4.2 In/fertile Bodies: When Procreation Meets Efficiency4.3 On Beauty: Visualisation Technologies, Aesthetics, and Looks4.4 Bodies of Data and Genetics4.5 In Transit: Biological Cargo, Body Containers4.6 SummaryChapter 5: Body Formation in Bioeconomic Times 5.1 The Crux of the Matter: Labour5.2 Picturing ‘(Re)productive Bodies at Work’Chapter 6: Conclusion

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

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• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsForewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Marx, Biotechnology and the Life Sciences: Rewriting BioCapital?1.2 Time for Renewed Conversations: Capitalism and the Body1.3 The Global Business of Egg Donation1.4 Case Study and Methods: Diffracting Egg Donation in South Africa1.5 Outline and Chapter StructureChapter 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 SummaryChapter 3: Deconstructing Nature’s ‘Latent Value’: Labour in Egg Donation3.1 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 Workers3.4 SummaryChapter 4: Bodies Made in South Africa 4.1 Mind the Gap: Bodies in the Life Sciences __ Bodies in Capitalism4.2 In/fertile Bodies: When Procreation Meets Efficiency4.3 On Beauty: Visualisation Technologies, Aesthetics, and Looks4.4 Bodies of Data and Genetics4.5 In Transit: Biological Cargo, Body Containers4.6 SummaryChapter 5: Body Formation in Bioeconomic Times 5.1 The Crux of the Matter: Labour5.2 Picturing ‘(Re)productive Bodies at Work’Chapter 6: Conclusion

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

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• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsForewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Marx, Biotechnology and the Life Sciences: Rewriting BioCapital?1.2 Time for Renewed Conversations: Capitalism and the Body1.3 The Global Business of Egg Donation1.4 Case Study and Methods: Diffracting Egg Donation in South Africa1.5 Outline and Chapter StructureChapter 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 SummaryChapter 3: Deconstructing Nature’s ‘Latent Value’: Labour in Egg Donation3.1 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 Workers3.4 SummaryChapter 4: Bodies Made in South Africa 4.1 Mind the Gap: Bodies in the Life Sciences __ Bodies in Capitalism4.2 In/fertile Bodies: When Procreation Meets Efficiency4.3 On Beauty: Visualisation Technologies, Aesthetics, and Looks4.4 Bodies of Data and Genetics4.5 In Transit: Biological Cargo, Body Containers4.6 SummaryChapter 5: Body Formation in Bioeconomic Times 5.1 The Crux of the Matter: Labour5.2 Picturing ‘(Re)productive Bodies at Work’Chapter 6: Conclusion