Transnational reproduction : race, kinship, and commercial surrogacy in India / Daisy Deomampo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deomampo, Daisy, author.

Series:

Anthropologies of American medicine : culture, power, and practice.

Anthropologies of American medicine : culture, power, and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrogate motherhood--India.

Surrogate motherhood.

Surrogate mothers--India.

Surrogate mothers.

Kinship--India.

Kinship.

India.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from across the glob. 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, Daisy Deomampo 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 labor-it also complicates that concept as the various actors in this reproductive work struggle to understand their relationships to one another. The book shows how these actors make sense of their connections, illuminating the ways in which kinship ties are challenged, transformed, or reinforced in the context of transnational gestational surrogacy. The volume offers a robust and nuanced understanding of race and power as ideas about kinship intersect with structures of inequality. It demonstrates that while reproductive actors share a common quest for conception, they make sense of family in very different ways. In doing so, the book uncovers the specific racial reproductive imaginaries that underpin the unequal relations at the heart of transnational surrogacy. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479804214

1479804215

9781479828388

1479828386

OCLC:

946161369