In South Africa's urban hubs, young women are increasingly participating in the global fertility market by donating their eggs. Egg providers, who supply oocytes for others’ use in fertility treatment, are a key resource in the fertility market, and they are emblematic of new forms of biolabor. Egg markets have tapped into a precariously middle‐class population of young Black women in Johannesburg, where the neoliberal state has largely retreated from fostering social mobility. What role does egg donation play in the social world of young South African women? I approach this question by extending Cohen's concept of “operability,” which can illuminate how egg donation becomes a means for young women to enact modernity, or relationality beyond the postapartheid state and the horizons of their social worlds, structured as they are by the entanglements of race, class, and gender.

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在南非的城市中心，越来越多的年轻女性通过捐赠卵子参与全球生育市场。卵子提供者为他人提供卵母细胞用于生育治疗，是生育市场的关键资源，也是新形式生物劳动的象征。鸡蛋市场已经利用了约翰内斯堡不稳定的中产阶级年轻黑人女性群体，那里的新自由主义国家在很大程度上已经不再促进社会流动性。卵子捐赠在南非年轻女性的社交世界中发挥什么作用？我通过扩展科恩的“可操作性”概念来解决这个问题，它可以阐明卵子捐赠如何成为年轻女性实现现代性或超越后种族隔离状态及其社会世界视野的一种手段，而社会世界的视野是由纠葛构成的种族、阶级和性别。