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Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings
PreviewIndia's Reproductive Assembly Line Sharmila Rudrappa Sociologist Sharmila Rudrappa provides a complex exploration of the lives of women in India who work as gestational surrogates for foreign couples, including these surrogates' ...
Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy: A Contexts Reader
PreviewIn “India's Reproductive Assembly Line,” Sharmila Rudrappa complicates the prevalent understanding of reproductive labor as inherently exploitative. Rudrappa describes the realities of women in India who act as surrogates for mostly ...
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and ...
Sharmila RudrappaThe author examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late 20th century United States.
Gender and Sexuality in the Workplace
PreviewSharmila Rudrappa ABSTRACT This chapter examines the emergence of India as a site for surrogacy, which has led intended parents from all over the world to contract with Indian gestational surrogates to carry ''their'' babies for them.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and ...
Preview14 From manufacturing clothes to manufacturing babies Economic precarity and labor options among surrogate mothers in Bangalore, India Sharmila Rudrappa Introduction “Aiyo akka, we garment workers ... our lives are hell. And our worlds ...
Body Evidence: Intimate Violence Against South Asian Women ...
PreviewSHARMILA RUDRAPPA Feminist activists and scholars have deep ambivalence about the use of culture in legal cases when seeking state intervention in domestic violence (Coleman 1996; Volpp 2000a). We understand that violence is a ...
Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India
Sharmila RudrappaIt [is] material for shaping the possibilities and limits of action” (Asad, 2003, 29, quoted in Wright, 2006: 4). Chapter 7. Surrogacy as a Gift 1 Adrienne Arieff, interview with Emanuella Grinberg, “The Highs and Lows of Foreign Surrogacy,” CNN, ...
The American Dream in Vietnamese
Nhi T. LieuShirley Thompson, Steve Hoelscher, Julia Mickenberg, Bob Abzug, Jeff Miekle, Mark C. Smith, Stephen Marshall, Neil Foley, Randy Lewis, Cary Cordova, Naomi Paik, Madeline Hsu, Lok Siu, Julia Lee, Sharmila Rudrappa, Kimberly Alidio, ...
Word Masala 2011
Yogesh PatelThis anthology includes work by Janice Groveas,Sharmila Chauhan,Uma Parameswaran,Debjani Chatterjee,Rajiv Mohabir,Meena Chopra,Daisy Abbey,Shafi U. Ahmed,Malhar Patel,Divya Mathur, Shanta Acharya,Sweta Srivastava Vikram Ashoka Sen,Usha ...
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