Applies a reproductive justice approach to 'transnational feminism' in an attempt to build a global feminist solidarity

Provides ethnographical insights from the author's empirical research in India Introduces 'humanitarian feminism' as a concept identifying humane thresholds that are crossed in asserting individual reproductive rights

Autorentext
Sheela Saravanan, PhD, has two master's degrees from the Universities of Bombay and Pune in India in Geography and Development Planning. Her Ph.D. from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia in Public Health was on the influence of biomedical frameworks of knowledge on local birthing practices in India. She has worked and published on the status of reproductive health in South Asia, violence against women and female infanticide in India earlier and now specializes in new and assisted reproductive technologies in the context of Asia and Europe. Since 2007 she has worked in the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn and Goettingen in Germany. She has published on global injustice, exploitation and objectification in the process of commercial surrogacy in India. Since January 2016 she has been working at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg on a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) funded project. The research aims to examine individual notions of 'desired children' (Wunschkinder/Vansh) shaped by social experiences in the German and Indian contexts that lead to selective abortions. She teaches Global Reproductive Technologies: Socio-Ethical and Legal Dimensions; Theories and Practice of Reproductive Technologies and Feminism and Public Health to bachelor's and master's students studying anthropology at the South Asia Institute, Department of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Inhalt

1. Indian Surrogacy Biomarkets: An Introduction.- 2. Surrogacy Globalscape.- 3. A Feminist discourse on Surrogacy: Reproductive Rights and Justice Approach.- 4. Situating India in the Globalscape of Inequalities.- 5. Surrogacy Biomarkets in India: Stratified Reproduction and Intersectionality.- 6. The Postcolonial Paradox and Feminist Solidarity.- 7. Transnational Feminism for Reproductive Justice.- 8. Towards Humanitarian Assisted Conception.