Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Genealogies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy:
Australia and India
Chapter 2: Surrogates in India: Class and Social Context
Chapter 3: The Intending Parents: the Narrow Pathways of IP
Journeys
Chapter 4: Finding the Clinic: Surrogate Recruitment Networks and
the Saleable Body
Chapter 5: Caretakers and Conversion: Caretaker Narratives
Chapter 6: The Lure of Hope: Locating the Clinic and Finding
Hope
Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Tragedy and the Experience of
Disaster
Chapter 8: Transnational Surrogacy, Kinship, Connectedness and the
Gift
Conclusion
Terminology
References
Appendix
About the Author
Michaela Stockey-Bridge is research associate at the University of Technology Sydney.
This is one of the first ethnographies to follow the hopeful
journeys of intended parents seeking surrogacy overseas. This
highly accessible book breaks down stereotypes of intended parents
as they negotiate the Indian surrogacy industry to form families.
Stockey-Bridge show sensitivity, sophisticated analysis and empathy
with her informants. She offers an important perpesctive to our
understanding of overseas surrogacy.
*Andrea Whittaker, professor of anthropology, ARC Future Fellow,
and convenor at Monash University*
Dr Stockey-Bridge's research involving Australian adults
undertaking commercial surrogacy arrangements in India, Indian
surrogates and staff in Indian fertility clinics engaged in
surrogacy arrangements provides a unique insight into international
surrogacy in India. This book makes a significant contribution to
existing knowledge and understanding of international commercial
surrogacy practice, policy and legislation.
*Eric Blyth, emeritus professor at the University of Huddersfield*
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