Discounted life : the price of global surrogacy in India /

Discounted life : the price of global surrogacy in India /

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Author / Creator:	Rudrappa, Sharmila, 1966- author.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Surrogate motherhood -- India. Surrogate motherhood -- Economic aspects -- India. Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- India. Surrogate Mothers. Bioethical Issues. Commodification. Maternal-Fetal Relations. Reproductive Rights -- economics. Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- ethics. Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects. Surrogate motherhood. Surrogate motherhood -- Economic aspects. India. India. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755237

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ISBN:	9781479877140 147987714X 9781479874521 1479874523 9781479825325 1479825328
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Drawing from rich interviews with surrogate mothers and egg donors in Bangalore, as well as 20 straight and gay couples in the US and Australia, this work focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy. Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labour markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. She argues that the reproductive industry is organised to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalising life development.
Other form:	Print version: Rudrappa, Sharmila, 1966- Discounted life 9781479874521

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Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781479877140 147987714X 9781479874521 1479874523 9781479825325 1479825328