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September 20, 2011 Professor Rene Almeling has published Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Professor Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, she finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for an easy "job." Women receive more money but are urged to regard egg donation in feminine terms, as the ultimate "gift" from one woman to another. Sex Cells shows how the gendered framing of paid donation, as either a job or a gift, not only influences the structure of the market, but also profoundly affects the individuals whose genetic material is being purchased.
Press coverage links online: The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Newsweek, NPR, Yale.
More information is available from the University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270961.
September 15, 2011 Tiffany Ho ’12, senior Sociology major, has, with seniors Jerry Choinski and Etkin Tekin, opened The Little Salad Shop at 45 High Street in New Haven. She notes that The Little Salad Shop “aims to encourage better eating by providing an affordable way to ‘eat healthy’ on a daily basis.” Tiffany also founded Ready Set Launch, a nonprofit organization that offers college admissions counseling to low-income high school students. Tiffany Ho is writing her senior thesis on the social movement of entrepreneurship, and the impact of network-bounded rationality on large-scale entrepreneurial success in America.
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