Reimagining Reproduction: Essays on Surrogacy, Labor, and Technologies of Human Reproduction

ISBN-13: 9781032379074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 144 str.

Kalindi Vora

Opis

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India. It frames the ethnography of the surrogacy clinic in conversation with concerns raised in the arenas of law, policy, medical ethics, and global structural inequality about the ethics of transnational Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) practices.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Medicine, Markets, and the Pregnant Body: Indian Commerical Surrogacy and Reproductive Labor in a Transnational Frame 3. Indian Transnational Surrogacy and the Commodification of Vital Energy 4. Limits of "Labor": Accounting for Affect and the Biological in Transnational Surrogacy and Service Work 5. Re-imagining Reproduction: Unsettling Metaphors in the History of Imperial Science and Commercial Surrogacy in India 6. Potential, Risk, and Return in Transnational Indian Gestational Surrogacy 7. Experimental Sociality in Transnational Surrogacy 8. Citizen, Subject, Property: Indian Surrogacy and the Global Fertility Market 9. Conclusion: After the Housewife: Surrogacy, Labor, and Human Reproduction

O autorze

Kalindi Vora is Professor of Ethnicity Race & Migration, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, History of Science and Medicine, and American Studies at Yale University. She is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourcing, Reimagining Reproduction: Essays on Surrogacy, Labor and Technologies of Human Reproduction, and co- author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures. With the Precarity Lab, she is author of Technoprecarious.