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Clients from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics, lives in surrogacy hostels, and speaks with surrogates, their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons to capture the full mechanics of this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on the intersection of production and reproduction and its reflection of India's larger labor regime. Yet her work also showcases the strategies surrogates deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. Pande ultimately advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.
Pande, Amrita
Wombs in Labor
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
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- Publication Date:
- September 2014
- Copyright year:
- 2014
- ISBN
- 978-0-231-53818-3
Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill, 2010
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Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill, 2010 (2014). Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India (pp. 195–200). https://doi.org/10.7312/pand16990-012
Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/pand16990
Online ISBN: 9780231538183
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