Discounted Life The Price of Global Surrogacy in India / Sharmila Rudrappa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudrappa, Sharmila, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrogate motherhood--Economic aspects.

Surrogate motherhood.

Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing from rich interviews with surrogate mothers and egg donors in Bangalore, as well as 20 straight and gay couples in the US and Australia, this work focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy. Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labour markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. She argues that the reproductive industry is organised to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalising life development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Markets in Life

1. Reproductive Interventions

2. Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets

3. The Many Meanings of Surrogacy

4. Locating Surrogacy in Child Sharing and Wage Labor

5. Babies as Commodities

6. Fetuses as Persons, Surrogate Mothers as Nonpersons

7. Surrogacy as a Gift

Conclusion: Discounted Life

NOTES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-7714-X

OCLC:

952639000