Category: Surrogacy & ARTs

Researching assisted conception from a feminist lens

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This article is part of the edited volume titled Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies:
Interdisciplinary Explorations, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Padmini Swaminathan and published by Routledge India in 2017. This chapter analyses how the need to study and critically engage with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and their significant offshoot commercial gestational surrogacy has marked our decade-long engagement as a women’s health group. Continue reading

Recruiting to Give Birth: Agent-facilitators and the Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement in India

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This article is part of the edited volume titled Babies for Sale? – Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction edited by Miranda Davies and published in 2017. Featuring contributions from over thirty activists and scholars from a range of countries and disciplines, this collection offers the first genuinely international study of transnational surrogacy. Continue reading