A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India

This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism. Drawing on her ethnographic work with surrogate mothers, intended parents and medical practitioners in India, the author sho...

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Main Author: Saravanan, Sheela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore , 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
Bioethics.
Identity politics.
ISBN:9789811068690
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Indian Surrogacy Biomarkets: An Introduction
  • 2. Surrogacy Globalscape
  • 3. A Feminist discourse on Surrogacy: Reproductive Rights and Justice Approach
  • 4. Situating India in the Globalscape of Inequalities
  • 5. Surrogacy Biomarkets in India: Stratified Reproduction and Intersectionality
  • 6. The Postcolonial Paradox and Feminist Solidarity
  • 7. Transnational Feminism for Reproductive Justice
  • 8. Towards Humanitarian Assisted Conception.

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