The Lure of Hope : On the Transnational Surrogacy Trail from Australia to India.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series .
- The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Genealogies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy -- 2 Surrogates in India -- 3 The Intending Parents -- 4 Finding the Clinic -- 5 Caretakers and Conversion -- 6 The Lure of Hope -- 7 The Rhetoric of Tragedy and the Experience of Disaster -- 8 Transnational Surrogacy, Kinship, Connectedness, and the Gift -- Conclusion -- Terminology -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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 systems governing surrogacy and embryo use in Australia and India.
9781683930570
Surrogate motherhood-Economic aspects. Human reproductive technology-Social aspects.