Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 42-52 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.16.2.219

The Surrogate's Womb

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Surrogate's Womb
The essay focuses on reproductive tourism and estrangement not only from our products and people who produce what we consume but also from our emotions and our intimate lives. Concretely, the author focuses on experience of commercial surrogates in India - poor women in whom a couple's embryo is implanted and who carry that baby to term for domestic or foreign clients. Drawing on interviews, the author analyses the world's largest womb rental service and how - out of financial need - the surrogate manages her emotional ties to her own body.

Keywords: commercialization, surrogacy, India, global inequalities, reproductive tourism

Published: June 1, 2015Show citation

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Russell Hochschild, Arlie. 2015. "The Surrogate's Womb." Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 16(2):42-52.
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