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Wombs in labor : transnational commercial surrogacy in India / Amrita Pande.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2018.Description: xi, 252 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780231169905 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231169912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8743 Q8
Contents:
Introduction : wombs in labor -- Pro-natal technologies in an anti-natal state -- When the fish talk about the water -- Manufacturing the perfect mother-worker -- Everyday divinities and God's labor -- Embodied labor and neo-eugenics -- Disposable workers and dirty labor -- Disposable mothers and kin labor -- Conclusion: aporia of surrogacy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.

Introduction : wombs in labor -- Pro-natal technologies in an anti-natal state -- When the fish talk about the water -- Manufacturing the perfect mother-worker -- Everyday divinities and God's labor -- Embodied labor and neo-eugenics -- Disposable workers and dirty labor -- Disposable mothers and kin labor -- Conclusion: aporia of surrogacy.

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