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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action Ser |
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SUNY series, praxis, theory in action.
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Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Life and Care from South of the Future -- Semi-Life and Semi-Care -- South of the Future -- Care and Life in Interdisciplinary Comparison -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1 From Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala to Commercial Global Surrogacy in Gujarat and Beyond: Lessons Learned from Research and Human Rights -- The Concept of Orphan -- Historical Background on Intercountry Adoption -- Cambodia: The Ugly Truth and How Illicit Adoptions Were Orchestrated -- Guatemala: A Human Rights Catastrophe -- The Millennium Adoption Surge in Guatemala |
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Commercial Global Surrogacy Takes Off as Intercountry Adoption Declines -- Commercial Global Surrogacy: The Case of Gujarat, India -- 1. Cost-Benefit Analysis Made by Surrogate Mothers -- 2. The Emotional Burden of the Surrogate Mothers -- 3. The Benefit That Came to the Women and Their Own Families as a Result of the Surrogacy -- 4. Surrogate Mother: Perceptions of Exploitation -- Concluding Thoughts on Lessons and What Is Next in My Research Agenda -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 On Cruelty and Care: Motherhood and the Crisis of Futurity -- Scenes of Extinction -- The Stakes of Renationalization |
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The Close Relative -- Collective Mothers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Promissory Futures: Medicine and Markets in Speculative Fiction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 The Surrogacy Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court: Marginalizing the Marginalized -- From Regulation to Prohibition of Surrogacy -- ICMR Guidelines -- Previously Proposed Legislation in 2008, 2010, and 2014 -- Ministry of Home Affairs Regulations (2015) -- The Surrogacy Bill of 2016 -- The Role of the Surrogacy PIL in the Turn Toward Prohibition -- Marginalizing the Marginalized |
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Surrogates Want the Right to Sell Gestational Care -- The Private Contract Model for Surrogacy Leads to Exploitation -- Conclusion: Lessons for Public Interest Litigation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Wet Nurses and Migrant Nanas in Mexico's Imaginary Landscape -- Mapping the Wet Nursing Practice from Spain to Mexico -- Wet Nurses in Literature and Art -- Nanas in Popular Culture -- Precarious Labor: Wet Nurses and Nanas -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Structures of Affect in Transactions of Care: From Surrogacy Discourses of the Womb to Mahasweta Devi's "Breast-Giver" |
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Outlines of the Surrogacy Debate in India -- The Problem of Ethical Practice in Surrogacy -- The Affective Potentializing of the Mother-Worker: Discursive Ruptures as Ethical Lens -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Artificial Bodies: The Politics of the Posthuman in Argentine Science Fiction Novels -- The Argentine Novel at the Turn of the Century: Dystopia as Politics -- Other Bodies: The Bioethics of El corazón de Doli -- Marcelo Cohen's Cyborg or the Freedom of Self -- Some Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited |
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Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Surrogate motherhood -- South Asia
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Intercountry adoption -- South Asia
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Intercountry adoption -- Latin America
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Nannies -- Latin America
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Women foreign workers -- Social conditions
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Intercountry adoption
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Nannies
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Surrogate motherhood
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Women foreign workers -- Social conditions
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Latin America
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South Asia
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Electronic book
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Author |
Castillo, Debra A.
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ISBN |
143848108X |
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9781438481081 |
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