Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India

by Amrita Pande

Book Overview

Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231169914
• ISBN13: 9780231169912
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher