TAMING EGG DONORS: THE PRODUCTION OF THE EGG DONATION BIOECONOMY IN SPAIN

Taming egg donors is a multi-sited ethnography of the egg donation industry in Spain. It elaborates the politics of decision-making, information, risk perception, labour, and selection that operate in the Spanish context. In this thesis, I delineate the multilevel processes in place to ultimately achieve the stabilisation of bodies and eggs for their entry into the global bio-market circuits. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Barcelona, I draw on the experience of both egg donors and clinicians. This polyvocal approach reveals the needs, struggles, and expectations of the participants involved and how they are orchestrated to produce the egg donation bioeconomy.