The lure of hope : on the transnational surrogacy trail from Australia to India /

India was the first among a trail of "pop up" third-party reproductive destinations including Thailand, Nepal, Mexico, and now Cambodia. Alongside the detailed ethnographic account of the experiences of parents and surrogate mothers the author offers a careful analysis of regulatory system...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stockey-Bridge, Michaela, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Series:Farleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
Subjects:
Surrogate motherhood > Economic aspects.
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects.
Procréation médicalement assistée > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects
Surrogate motherhood > Economic aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Genealogies of transnational commercial surrogacy: Australia and India
  • Surrogates in India : class and social context
  • The intending parents : the narrow pathways of IP journeys
  • Finding the clinic: surrogate recruitment networks and the saleable body
  • Caretakers and conversion : caretaker narratives
  • The lure of hope: locating the clinic and finding hope
  • The rhetoric of tragedy and the experience of disaster
  • Transnational surrogacy, kinship, connectedness and the gift
  • Conclusion.

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