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DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Department of Feminist Studies Presents:\n\nProfessor Catherine 
 Waldby\nUniversity of Sydney\n\n"The Biopolitics of Reproduction: 
 Post-Fordist Biotechnology\nand Women's Clinical Labour"\n\nWednesday, 
 October 3, 2007\n4:30 - 6:30 p.m.\nHumanities 1, room 210\n\nProfessor 
 Catherine Waldby is International Research Fellow at the University of 
 Sydney, and collaborating partner of the Global Biopolitics Research Group 
 www.globalbiopolitics.org. She researches and publishes in social studies 
 of biomedicine and the life sciences. Her most recent books are, with 
 Robert Mitchell Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late 
 Capitalism (2006 Duke University Press) and with Brian Salter and Herbert 
 Gotwiess The global politics of human embryonic stem cell research, 
 (Palgrave 2008 forthcoming).\n\nThis paper investigates some contemporary 
 rearticulations of female reproductive biology, particularly the advent of 
 assisted reproductive technology and the centrality of reproductive tissue 
 (embryos, oöcytes, cord blood) to the regenerative medicine industries. We 
 argue that while nation states have lost traction over female reproductive 
 biology and are less and less able to mobilise it for nation-building, it 
 is increasingly available for private investment and capitalisation in the 
 bioeconomy. Focusing on global markets for women's oöcytes (unfertilised 
 eggs), we explore the consequences of framing women's contribution to the 
 biotechnology industries as labour, in historical continuity with earlier 
 colonial forms of female bodily labour, and cognate to other forms of 
 feminised global production.\n\nSponsorship: Departments of History of 
 Consciousness, Philosophy,  Science Studies Cluster, Center for Cultural 
 Studies, Institute for Humanities Research, Center for Justice, Tolerance 
 and Community\n\nFor more information please contact Feminist Studies at 
 459-4324.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/02/18451362.php
SUMMARY:Professor Catherine Waldby: The Biopolitics of Reproduction
LOCATION:Humanities 1, room 210\nUC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/02/18451362.php
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