race, kinship, and commercial surrogacy in India /
Daisy Deomampo.
New York :
New York University Press,
2016.
1 online resource (286 pages)
Anthropologies of American medicine : culture, power, and practice
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Public health and assisted reproduction in India -- Making kinship, othering women -- Egg donation and exotic beauty -- The making of citizens and parents -- Physician racism and the commodification of intimacy -- Medicalized birth and the construction of risk -- Constrained agency and power in surrogates' everyday lives.
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"Transnational Reproduction' traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one of the top providers of surrogacy services in the world. Drawing on interviews with commissioning parents, surrogates, and egg donors as well as doctors and family members, it argues that while the surrogacy industry in India offers a clear example of 'stratified reproduction"--The ways in which political, economic, and social forces structure the conditions under which women carry out physical and social reproductive labour - it also complicates that concept as the various actors in this reproductive work struggle to understand their relationships to one another.
JSTOR
22573/ctt1bj6fcb
Transnational reproduction.
9781479804214
Kinship-- India.
Surrogate motherhood-- India.
Surrogate mothers-- India.
Commerce.
Family.
Internationality.
Racism.
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted-- economics.
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted-- psychology.
Surrogate Mothers-- psychology.
Ersatzmutterschaft
Kinship.
Leihmutter
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.