Wombs in labor : transnational commercial surrogacy in India / Amrita Pande.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pande, Amrita, author.

Series:

South Asia across the disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrogate motherhood--India.

Surrogate motherhood.

Surrogate mothers--India.

Surrogate mothers.

India.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Clients from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics, lives in surrogacy hostels, and speaks with surrogates, their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons to capture the full mechanics of this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on the intersection of production and reproduction and its reflection of India's larger labor regime. Yet her work also showcases the strategies surrogates deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. She ultimately advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : wombs in labor

Pro-natal technologies in an anti-natal state

When the fish talk about the water

Manufacturing the perfect mother-worker

Everyday divinities and God's labor

Embodied labor and neo-eugenics

Disposable workers and dirty labor

Disposable mothers and kin labor

Conclusion: aporia of surrogacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231169905

0231169906

9780231169912

0231169914

OCLC:

879662328