How Long to Read Reinventing Hoodia

How Long Does it Take to Read Reinventing Hoodia?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Reinventing Hoodia by Laura A. Foster

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.

How long is Reinventing Hoodia?

Reinventing Hoodia by Laura A. Foster is 233 pages long, and a total of 58,949 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Reinventing Hoodia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Reinventing Hoodia aloud.

What Reading Level is Reinventing Hoodia?

Reinventing Hoodia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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