A TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST VIEW OF SURROGACY BIOMARKETS IN IND IBD

Sinopse

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 shows the dark connections between poverty, gender, human rights violations and indignity in the surrogacy market. In a developing country like India, bio-technologies therefore create reproductive objects of certain female bodies while promoting an image of reproductive liberation for others.áIndia is a classic example for how far these biomarkets can exploit vulnerabilities for individual requirements in the garb of reproductive liberty.áThis critical bookárefers to a range of liberal, radical and postcolonial feminist frameworks on surrogacy, and questions theáindividual reproductive rights perspective as an approach to examine global surrogacy. It introduces âÇÖhumanitarian feminismâÇÖ as an alternative concept to bridge feminist factions divided on contextual and ideological grounds. It hopesáto build a global feminist solidarityádrawing on a âÇÖreproductive justiceâÇÖ approach by recognizing the histories of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, age and immigration oppression in all communities.áThis work is of interest to researchers and students of medical sociology and anthropology, gender studies,ábioethics, andádevelopment studies.