Discounted Life : : The Price of Global Surrogacy in India / / Sharmila Rudrappa.
Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational AsiaFinalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy indu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Markets in Life
- Part I. The Labor Market for Surrogate Mothers
- 1. Reproductive Interventions
- 2. Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets
- 3. The Many Meanings of Surrogacy
- Part II. Incorporating Pregnancy and Childbirth into the Market Economy
- 4. Locating Surrogacy in Child Sharing and Wage Labor
- 5. Babies as Commodities
- 6. Fetuses as Persons, Surrogate Mothers as Nonpersons
- 7. Surrogacy as a Gift
- Conclusion: Discounted Life
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author