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.

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.

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