
Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India
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In thetwenty-first century, parenthood is no longer achieved only through gestation, adoption, or traditional surrogacy, but also via assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), where science and technology play lead roles. Furthermore, in a globalized world economy, where the movement and transfer of people and commodities are increasing to serve the interests of capitalism, gamete donation and surrogate birth can traverse innumerable geographic, socio-economic, racialized, and political borderlands. Thus, reproduction itself can be outsourced.
This edited volume explores one specific aspect of the new assisted reproductive technologies: gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon of transnational surrogacy has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being 'legally' exchanged for babies and 'reproductive labor' has taken on a lucrative commercial tone. Yet, law, research, and activism are barely aware of this experience and are still playing catch-up with rapidly changing on-the-ground realities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assuages the dearth of knowledge and addresses significant issues in transnational commercial gestational surrogacy as it takes shape in a peculiar relation between the West (primarily the United States) and India.
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Shamita Das Dasguptais cofounder of Manavi, an organization focusing on violence against South Asian women in the United States. She teaches at New York University Law School.
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The Three 'M's of Commercial Surrogacy in India:Mother, Money, and Medical Market
PREETI NAYAK
Reconceiving Surrogacy:Toward a Reproductive Justice Account of Indian Surrogacy
ALISON BAILEY
Gestational Surrogacy in India:The Problems of Technology and Poverty
VARADA MADGE
Shifting Sands:Transnational Surrogacy, E-Motherhood, and Nation Building
SAYANTANI DASGUPTA and SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA
The Power of Narratives:Negotiating Commercial Surrogacy in India
AMRITA PANDE
The Rhetoric of the Womb:The Representation of Surrogacy in the Popular Mass Media in India
ANINDITA MAJUMDAR
Mother India:Outsourcing Labor to Indian Surrogate Mothers
SHARMILA RUDRAPPA
A Race to the Bottom?The Need for International Regulation of the Rapidly Growing Global Surrogacy Market
SEEMA MOHAPATRA
A Welfare Principle Applied to Children Born and Adopted in SurrogacyMARSHA J. TYSON DARLING
Business As Usual?The Violence of Reproductive Trafficking
SAYANTANI DASGUPTA & SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA
Transnational Surrogacy Takes Center StageAMY FEINBERG & JENNIFER MAISEL
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