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A shift from home to the market: The marketization of reproductive labor in India

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  • Dalia Bhattacharjee

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Commercial surrogacy marketizes life's work. In the era of neo-liberalism, women's work, which is often intimately performed within a heterosexual marriage in exchange of support, now remains a principal avenue to earn money. This form of feminization of labor has led to the emergence of markets for women's reproductive capacities. The present study stems from my ethnographic journey into the lives of the women who work as surrogate mothers in India. The narratives presented in the paper emerge from my prolonged fieldwork in Anand, Gujarat. It engages with the experiences, understandings, and the voices of these women, who I term reproductive laborers , in order to examine the notion of putting one's reproductive capacities in this intimate market for money.

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  • Dalia Bhattacharjee, 2024. "A shift from home to the market: The marketization of reproductive labor in India," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 56(1), pages 199-215, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:56:y:2024:i:1:p:199-215
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X211071104
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