Serving the transnational surrogacy market as a development strategy?

Schurr, Carolin; Friedrich, Bettina (2015). Serving the transnational surrogacy market as a development strategy? In: Coles, Anne; Grey, Leslie; Momsen, Janet (eds.) The Routledge handbook of gender and development. Routledge handbooks (pp. 236-243). London u.a.: Routledge

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This chapter engages with the transnational market of gestational surrogacy resulting from the innovation and spread of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and reproductive services. In this new transnational market, women of lower economic and social status—often situated in the Global South—provide reproductive materials such as ova and surrogate services for elite women who come to the Global South in their search for inexpensive fertility treatment. Mapping the geographies of transnational surrogacy, this chapter first discusses the spatial expansion of surrogacy markets within the Global South. Second, drawing on India as a case study, it is questioned to what extent transnational surrogacy can be considered a development strategy both for national developing economies and for individual women in the Global South. The chapter concludes discussing the implications of these new markets for feminist research.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography > Unit Cultural Geography 09 Interdisciplinary Units > Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG) 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography
UniBE Contributor:	Schurr, Carolin
Subjects:	900 History > 910 Geography & travel 700 Arts > 710 Landscaping & area planning 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
ISBN:	978-0-415-82908-3
Series:	Routledge handbooks
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Julian Spycher
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2018 16:32
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:17
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/119222