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A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6869-0

ISBN: 978-981-10-6868-3

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Mar 27, 2018

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Indian Surrogacy Biomarkets: An Introduction

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 1 –14

[By 2009–10, India had become one of the most popular destinations for third-party childbearing due to the lax surrogacy laws, high quality medical facilities, qualified English-speaking doctors and a surplus of women willing to offer their reproductive capacity for money. Stories of surrogacy as...
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Surrogacy Globalscape

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 17 –46

[The liberal feminist approach emphasizes that reproductive freedom is rooted in individual choice and autonomy. Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are perceived as an ideal measure to solve infertility. Importance is given to individualistic anti-statist approach, aiming to provide free...
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A Feminist Discourse on Surrogacy: Reproductive Rights and Justice Approach

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 47 –78

[Feminists have upheld the inclusion of reproductive rights such as using medical technologies for abortion, contraception and safe childbirth and these efforts need to be celebrated (ICPD Programme of Action in Cairo Egypt: international conference on population and development. United Nations...
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Situating India in the Globalscape of Inequalities

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 81 –99

[India became a popular global destination for assisted reproduction, supported by the Indian government. In the backdrop of this increasing popularity was ineffective governance, unregistered clinics, and a growing market that was embedded in socio-economic inequalities in India. This chapter...
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Surrogacy Biomarkets in India: Stratified Reproduction and Intersectionality

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 101 –127

[Feminists have noted the ways in which certain power relations in stratified reproduction empower some people to nurture and reproduce while disempowering others (Colen in Conceiving the new world order: the global politics of reproduction. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 78–102,...
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The Postcolonial Paradox and Feminist Solidarity

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 129 –157

[Postcolonial feminists critique the universalization of women globally, for applying Western standards of emancipation on all women and describing non-western, women of colour as the “other”. However, this postcolonial dilemma resulted in a postcolonial anxiety that resorted to pluralism and...
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Transnational Feminism for Reproductive Justice

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 161 –172

[Assisted reproductive technologies have provided a wide range of choices and opportunities for people to have children using genetics of their choice (either their own genetics or others). These technologies can also be used in ways that are harmful to communities with lower access to resources...
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Towards Humanitarian Assisted Conception

Saravanan, Sheela

Pages: 173 –183

[Roberts (Signs 34:783–804, 2009) notes reproductive liberty must encompass not merely the individual women’s choice about how and when to have a child and to end her pregnancy, but should also include social justice. The notion of liberty allows an individual to choose procreation for oneself...

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