![]() ![]() In the concluding remarks, I propose an alternative to the current debates by offering surrogacy as a praxis for opening up discussions about feminism s and transnational feminisms. ![]() ![]() At the national level as India moves from specializing in babies ‘Made in India’ to ‘Make in India’, its role in the reproductive assembly line is transformed, with repercussions for gestational mothers. In Ashwini Tambe & Millie Thayer (eds.), Transnational feminist itineraries: situating. There is, however, a noticeable dissipation in the gestational mothers’ demands for change in part due to a management’s strategy of manufacturing consent and loyalty. Wombs in India : revisiting commercial surrogacy. The rigid discipline structure and the ambiguities around contract, payment, and post-natal care remain intact. At the level of the local I revisit a surrogacy clinic and hostel in India, after a decade of my first ethnographic research, to argue that despite the legal upheavals, not much had changed for the gestational mothers themselves. We are allowed visitors, but not for the night. Then we wake up at noon, bathe, and eat lunch. We wake up at 8 a.m., have tea, take our medicines and injections, and go back to sleep. I use my ethnographic findings to analyse the effects of the ban on the local and the national. Amrita Pande Commercial Surrogacy in India: Manufacturing a Perfect Mother-Worker Everything works like clockwork. ![]() In this paper, I use a multi-scalar approach to understand the full repercussions of a national ban on the transnational practice of surrogacy in India. ![]()
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