Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India

Outsourcing Life

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Sociology
Cover of the book Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India by Preeti Nayak, Alison Bailey, Varada Madge, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Amrita Pande, Anindita Majumdar, Sharmila Rudrappa, Seema Mohapatra, Marsha J. Tyson Darling, Amy Feinberg, Jennifer Maisel, Lexington Books
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Author: Preeti Nayak, Alison Bailey, Varada Madge, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Amrita Pande, Anindita Majumdar, Sharmila Rudrappa, Seema Mohapatra, Marsha J. Tyson Darling, Amy Feinberg, Jennifer Maisel ISBN: 9780739187432
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: February 14, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Preeti Nayak, Alison Bailey, Varada Madge, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Amrita Pande, Anindita Majumdar, Sharmila Rudrappa, Seema Mohapatra, Marsha J. Tyson Darling, Amy Feinberg, Jennifer Maisel
ISBN: 9780739187432
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: February 14, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be ‘outsourced’ in our globalized world. One would not think so with parenthood, however, especially motherhood, as it is a fundamental activity humans have historically preserved as personal and private. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessibility of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and the ease with which they have traversed global borders, has fundamentally altered the meaning of childbearing and parenting.

In thetwenty-first century, parenthood is no longer achieved only through gestation, adoption, or traditional surrogacy, but also via assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), where science and technology play lead roles. Furthermore, in a globalized world economy, where the movement and transfer of people and commodities are increasing to serve the interests of capitalism, gamete donation and surrogate birth can traverse innumerable geographic, socio-economic, racialized, and political borderlands. Thus, reproduction itself can be outsourced.

This edited volume explores one specific aspect of the new assisted reproductive technologies: gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon of transnational surrogacy has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being ‘legally’ exchanged for babies and ‘reproductive labor’ has taken on a lucrative commercial tone. Yet, law, research, and activism are barely aware of this experience and are still playing catch-up with rapidly changing on-the-ground realities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assuages the dearth of knowledge and addresses significant issues in transnational commercial gestational surrogacy as it takes shape in a peculiar relation between the West (primarily the United States) and India.

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From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be ‘outsourced’ in our globalized world. One would not think so with parenthood, however, especially motherhood, as it is a fundamental activity humans have historically preserved as personal and private. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessibility of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and the ease with which they have traversed global borders, has fundamentally altered the meaning of childbearing and parenting.

In thetwenty-first century, parenthood is no longer achieved only through gestation, adoption, or traditional surrogacy, but also via assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), where science and technology play lead roles. Furthermore, in a globalized world economy, where the movement and transfer of people and commodities are increasing to serve the interests of capitalism, gamete donation and surrogate birth can traverse innumerable geographic, socio-economic, racialized, and political borderlands. Thus, reproduction itself can be outsourced.

This edited volume explores one specific aspect of the new assisted reproductive technologies: gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon of transnational surrogacy has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being ‘legally’ exchanged for babies and ‘reproductive labor’ has taken on a lucrative commercial tone. Yet, law, research, and activism are barely aware of this experience and are still playing catch-up with rapidly changing on-the-ground realities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assuages the dearth of knowledge and addresses significant issues in transnational commercial gestational surrogacy as it takes shape in a peculiar relation between the West (primarily the United States) and India.

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