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Introduction -- Public health and assisted reproduction in India -- Making kinship, othering women -- Egg donation and exotic beauty -- The making of citizens and parents -- Physician racism and the commodification of intimacy -- Medicalized birth and the construction of risk -- Constrained agency and power in surrogates' everyday lives -- Conclusion

"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, it 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 labour - it also complicates that concept as the various actors in this reproductive work struggle to understand their relationships to one another

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I DEVELOPMENT -- Introduction -- 1 BUNTY SINGH BUILDER OF DREAMS -- 2 IMRAN HOUSING CONTRACTOR -- 3 DALPAT MANAGER OF SERVICES -- 4 MEHMOODBHAI TOILET OPERATOR -- 5 KAUSHAL LAND AGGLOMERATOR -- 6 JANU SISTER-SUPERVISOR OF MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS -- PART II PROPERTY -- Introduction -- 7 DR. K MIDDLE-CLASS SOCIAL WORKER -- 8 ASHOK RAVAT SHIVAJI PARK'S SENTINEL -- 9 SHAZIA PROOF MAKER -- 10 NIRMALA KAMATHIPURA'S GATEKEEPER -- 11 FARHAD "SUE MAKER" -- PART III BUSINESS -- Introduction -- 12 RAMITA SURROGACY AGENT -- 13 MUHAMMAD REVALORIZER OF E-WASTE -- 14 DEEPAK MAKING MUMBAI (IN CHINA) -- 15 LUBAINA FRAMING "DEVELOPMENT" -- 16 SHANKAR DELIVERING AUTHENTICITY -- 17 MANAL-MUNA COOKING UP VALUE -- 18 RAMJI BUSINESS ENERGIZER -- PART IV DIFFERENCE -- Introduction -- 19 BHIMSEN GAIKWAD SINGER OF JUSTICE -- 20 SULTAN IMAGE MANAGER -- 21 RAJ CARTING COSMOPOLITANISM -- 22 LAXMI DEALER IN EMOTION -- 23 DHARAMSEY ASSEMBLER OF TRADITION -- 24 DALVI SPEAKER OF CITIES -- PART V PUBLICS -- Introduction -- 25 SHASHI DOT CONNECTOR -- 26 ANIL PRAKASH AMPLIFIER OF CINEMA-INDUSTRIAL CONNECTIONS -- 27 GAURAVPANT MISHRA CROWD MAKER -- 28 SRINIVASAN KINGMAKER -- 29 MADHU DOOR OPENER -- 30 POORNIMA DESIGNING RELATIONS -- PART VI TRUTH -- Introduction -- 31 RAJANI PANDIT DETECTOR OF "TRUTHS" -- 32 AFZAL TAXIMAN RUMOR NAVIGATOR -- 33 PAWAN PRISON MASTER -- 34 SUJIT MASTER COMMUNICATOR -- 35 CHADDA REPORT MAKER -- 36 PRAKASH DATA ENTREPRENEUR -- CONCLUSION OTHER PLACES, OTHER TIMES -- GLOSSARY -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX