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Daisy Deomampo - Transnational Reproduction - 9781479828388 - V9781479828388
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Transnational Reproduction

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Description for Transnational Reproduction Paperback. Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power and Practice. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBF; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 278 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.

Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one of the top providers of surrogacy services in the world. Drawing on interviews with commissioning parents, surrogates, and egg donors as well as doctors and family members, Daisy Deomampo argues that while the surrogacy industry in India offers a clear example of “stratified reproduction”—the ways in which political, economic, and social forces structure the conditions under which women carry out physical and social reproductive labor—it also complicates that concept as the various actors in this ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power and Practice
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479828388
SKU
V9781479828388
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Ref
99-50

About Daisy Deomampo
Daisy Deomampo is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Fordham University. She is the author of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India.

Reviews for Transnational Reproduction
Accessibly written, it could be taught in undergraduate courses or modules on transnational surrogacy or assisted reproduction and social/economic inequality at lower and upper levels. The book promises to be an important resource for scholars of global markets in reproductive services.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Building upon the classic feminist concept of stratified reproduction, Deomampo is the first to ... Read more

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