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 m
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A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India
A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India
Sheela Saravanan
A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India
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Sheela Saravanan Department of Anthropology, South Asia Institute Heidelberg University Heidelberg Germany
ISBN 978-981-10-6868-3 ISBN 978-981-10-6869-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6869-0
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To my parents, my ideals, R. Suryanarayanan & K.R. Sivakami, my foremost teachers of social justice.
Acknowledgements
I am deeply grateful to everyone who has helped me in this endeavor. I thank the medical practitioners who allowed me entry into this sensitive zone of commercial surrogacy in India and the personnel in the clinic who helped me meet surrogate mothers and intended parents. I thank the surrogate mothers for their kindness and for sharing their experiences with me and for teaching me how to remain positive and cheerful even in adverse conditions, and the intended parents who shared their experiences with me. Without the financial support of German Research Foundation (DFG), the field work in India and the documentary film would not have been possible. My friends in India, Germany, and Canada who have encouraged me with my work. A few surrogate mothers from my case study were forthcoming in also participating in my initiative on making a documentary film on surrogacy titled “Mother Anonymous” directed by Rahul Ranadive. I thank them for trusting me. Their storie
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