Discounted life : the price of global surrogacy in India / Sharmila Rudrappa.
2015
HQ759.5 .R83 2015eb
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Title
Discounted life : the price of global surrogacy in India / Sharmila Rudrappa.
ISBN
9781479877140 (electronic bk.)
147987714X (electronic bk.)
9781479874521
1479874523
9781479825325
1479825328
147987714X (electronic bk.)
9781479874521
1479874523
9781479825325
1479825328
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HQ759.5 .R83 2015eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)926101821
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Markets in Life
PART I. THE LABOR MARKET FOR SURROGATE MOTHERS
1. Reproductive Interventions
2. Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets
3. The Many Meanings of Surrogacy
PART II. INCORPORATING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH INTO THE MARKET ECONOMY
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
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Markets in Life
PART I. THE LABOR MARKET FOR SURROGATE MOTHERS
1. Reproductive Interventions
2. Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets
3. The Many Meanings of Surrogacy
PART II. INCORPORATING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH INTO THE MARKET ECONOMY
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
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
About the Author.
Source of Description
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Print version: Rudrappa, Sharmila, 1966- Discounted life
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