Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India

Sayantani DasGupta is assistant clinical professor of pediatrics and a core faculty member of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.Shamita Das Dasguptais cofounder of Manavi, an organization focusing on violence against South Asian women in the United States. She teaches at New York University Law School.

• SAYANTANI DASGUPTA & SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTAThe Three ‘M’s of Commercial Surrogacy in India:Mother, Money, and Medical MarketPREETI NAYAKReconceiving Surrogacy:Toward a Reproductive Justice Account of Indian SurrogacyALISON BAILEYGestational Surrogacy in India:The Problems of Technology and PovertyVARADA MADGEShifting Sands:Transnational Surrogacy, E-Motherhood, and Nation BuildingSAYANTANI DASGUPTA and SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTAThe Power of Narratives:Negotiating Commercial Surrogacy in IndiaAMRITA PANDEThe Rhetoric of the Womb:The Representation of Surrogacy in the Popular Mass Media in IndiaANINDITA MAJUMDARMother India:Outsourcing Labor to Indian Surrogate MothersSHARMILA RUDRAPPAA Race to the Bottom?The Need for International Regulation of the Rapidly Growing Global Surrogacy MarketSEEMA MOHAPATRAA Welfare Principle Applied to Children Born and Adopted in SurrogacyMARSHA J. TYSON DARLINGBusiness As Usual?The Violence of Reproductive TraffickingSAYANTANI DASGUPTA & SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTATransnational Surrogacy Takes Center StageAMY FEINBERG & JENNIFER MAISEL

While the number of scholarly works on surrogacy in India [has] increased in recent years, the profound complexities and contradictions embedded in transnational surrogacy remain largely understudied. Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India fills this lacuna by illuminating the lives of Indian surrogates, their foreign clients, and other stakeholders. Editors Sayantani Das Gupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta bring together authors from wide-ranging fields to examine the socio-cultural, ethical, and legal implications of commercial gestational surrogacy in India. In so doing, this volume expertly deals with the intricacies of the phenomenon, engaging with critical questions of class, power, agency, violence, and work . . . . [T]his book represents critical reading for scholars interested not only in transnational surrogacy, but also in broader questions related to labour and gender in transnational contexts. The volume is accessible and effective for people seeking a starting point for research on transnational surrogacy, while still providing the nuance and complexity specialists require. Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy inIndia should be essential reading for activists and policy-makers interested in the contemporary realities of, and future possibilities for, women who work as surrogates in India.