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What Waldby presents so compellingly is that there is an oocyte economy. Eggs have value and meaning, indeed they have different values and meanings in different contexts. -- Jane Maienschein * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *

What Waldby presents so compellingly is that there is an oocyte economy. Eggs have value and meaning, indeed they have different values and meanings in different contexts. -- Jane Maienschein * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences * The Oocyte Economy is not only a rigorous study but a riveting read. -- Claire Horn * Women's Review of Books * This book offers a fascinating foray into the changing meaning of human oocytes for Western women and reproductive scientists. As such, it is a must-read for scholars of reproduction, and for related courses in anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and the history of science and medicine. -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Bulletin of the History of Medicine * A thought-provoking and original examination of the emergence of an economy premised on deep cultural beliefs about the meaning of oocytes.... Likely to become required reading in medicine, gender, and in the interdisciplinary field of reproduction. -- Rosanna Hertz * Society *

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Catherine Waldby is Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and the author and coauthor of several books, including Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy, also published by Duke University Press.

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