There are so many disturbing aspects to transnational surrogacy in India. In addition to reprising some of the better-known concerns, such as inequities; the commodification of women, babies, and body bits; and the limits of nation-state governance in a globalized world, this volume also gives voice to the different players' understandings glimpsed through ethographies and analyses of cyber-chat, and gives shape to less-familiar aspects of each of the participant's situations. Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life helps us traverse this tough terrain. -Wendy Chavkin, Columbia University -- Wendy Chavkin, Columbia Universit

SAYANTANI DASGUPTA & SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA 1.The Three 'M's of Commercial Surrogacy in India: Mother, Money, and Medical Market PREETI NAYAK 2.Reconceiving Surrogacy: Toward a Reproductive Justice Account of Indian Surrogacy ALISON BAILEY 3.Gestational Surrogacy in India: The Problems of Technology and Poverty VARADA MADGE 4.Shifting Sands: Transnational Surrogacy, E-Motherhood, and Nation Building SAYANTANI DASGUPTA and SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA 5.The Power of Narratives: Negotiating Commercial Surrogacy in India AMRITA PANDE 6.The Rhetoric of the Womb: The Representation of Surrogacy in the Popular Mass Media in India ANINDITA MAJUMDAR 7.Mother India: Outsourcing Labor to Indian Surrogate Mothers SHARMILA RUDRAPPA 8.A Race to the Bottom? The Need for International Regulation of the Rapidly Growing Global Surrogacy Market SEEMA MOHAPATRA 9.A Welfare Principle Applied to Children Born and Adopted in Surrogacy MARSHA J. TYSON DARLING 10.Business As Usual? The Violence of Reproductive Trafficking SAYANTANI DASGUPTA & SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA 11.Transnational Surrogacy Takes Center Stage AMY FEINBERG & JENNIFER MAISEL

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