Sharmila Rudrappa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 247802 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sharmila Rudrappa |
| NOMBRES | Sharmila |
| APELLIDO | Rudrappa |
| FIRMA | RUDRAPPA S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0773-0383 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Feminist Futures for Authoritarian Times
An Omission Revisited, or Making Sense of Baby Markets in India
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in India on surrogacy in 2011–12, and on women community health workers in 2018–19, this essay offers glimpses into the underground market in babies in India. We describe instances we came across of working-class women either having their babies stolen from them, relinquishing their babies in exchange for money, or facilitating such exchanges for other women. These instances became a methodological, analy…
No Reproductive Justice with no Ceasefire in Palestine
Genetic identity as a regime of truth
Through examining cases of cross-border surrogacy in Israel and the United States, we offer the concept of genetic kinning defined as the narratives deployed by individuals that give prominence to genetic relatedness between offspring and parents to highlight immutable similarities between parents, and by extension, grandparents and ancestors. The deployment of genetic kinning narratives does not happen in a vacuum; instead, nation-state bodies e…
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans
This concluding article, building from observations of the industry from 2008 onwards, examines the practices of commercial and altruistic surrogacy in India. Commercial surrogacy is built on atomized market relationships, where exchanges are mediated by money. The author shows how exploitation is at the heart of production in commercial surrogacy. Altruistic surrogacy is built on gift-like giving between social actors engaged in ongoing exchange…
Discounted Life
"India is the world's top provider of surrogacy services, with a multi-million-dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially. Some scholars have praised transnational surrogacy for the possibilities it opens for infertile couples, while others have offered bioethical cautionary tales or lamented the exploitation of surrogate mothers - but very little is known about the relationship between surrogate mothers and intended parents o…
Land, women and techno-pastoral development in southern Karnataka, India
Reproducing Dystopia
In the decade following legalization of commercial surrogacy in 2002, India became the largest provider of surrogacy services. Then, in December 2015 commercial surrogacy was banned. In this article I show that commercial surrogacy was no panacea for working-class women, but the ban can potentially be far worse because the Indian state now allows only altruistic surrogacy between citizen couples and their women kinfolk who will provide gestation …
What to Expect When You're Expecting
This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded in the larger literature on care work. Building from the scholarship on intimate labors, the author shows that surrogacy involves not just affective states of being; instead, s…
Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets
The Many Meanings of Surrogacy
Locating Surrogacy in Child Sharing and Wage Labor
Reproductive Interventions
Surrogacy as a Gift
Babies as Commodities
Introduction
Conclusion
Fetuses as Persons, Surrogate Mothers as Nonpersons
Discounted Life
Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational Asia Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations look for wombs in which to grow their babies. Some…
Red Tape
Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers
What makes a multimillion-dollar, transnational intimate industry possible when most people see it as exploitative? Using the newly emergent case of commercial surrogacy in India, this article extends the literature on stratified reproduction and intimate industries by examining how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the 'rent-a-womb industry' and 'baby factory.' Using interview data with eight infertility specialists,…
Birth in the age of Aids
Sharmila RudrappaDepartment of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, [email protected]© 2014, Sharmila Rudrappa
Des ateliers de confection aux lignes d'assemblage des bébés
Cet article analyse les trajectoires d’emploi de femmes à Bangalore, dans le Sud de l’Inde. Employées dans l’industrie de la confection, certaines en viennent à vendre leurs ovules et à se proposer comme mères porteuses, avant de revenir vers leur activité initiale. Notre propos est notamment de démontrer que si ces femmes sont bien exploitées par une industrie des corps, elles n’en tirent pas nécessairement un sentiment d’aliénation. De manière …
Flat Broke in the Free Market
Social Science
Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers
What makes a multimillion-dollar, transnational intimate industry possible when most people see it as exploitative? Using the newly emergent case of commercial surrogacy in India, this article extends the literature on stratified reproduction and intimate industries by examining how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the 'rent-a-womb industry' and 'baby factory.' Using interview data with eight infertility specialists,…
Discounted Life
Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational Asia Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations look for wombs in which to grow their babies. Some…
Reproducing Dystopia
In the decade following legalization of commercial surrogacy in 2002, India became the largest provider of surrogacy services. Then, in December 2015 commercial surrogacy was banned. In this article I show that commercial surrogacy was no panacea for working-class women, but the ban can potentially be far worse because the Indian state now allows only altruistic surrogacy between citizen couples and their women kinfolk who will provide gestation …
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans
This concluding article, building from observations of the industry from 2008 onwards, examines the practices of commercial and altruistic surrogacy in India. Commercial surrogacy is built on atomized market relationships, where exchanges are mediated by money. The author shows how exploitation is at the heart of production in commercial surrogacy. Altruistic surrogacy is built on gift-like giving between social actors engaged in ongoing exchange…
Des ateliers de confection aux lignes d'assemblage des bébés
Cet article analyse les trajectoires d’emploi de femmes à Bangalore, dans le Sud de l’Inde. Employées dans l’industrie de la confection, certaines en viennent à vendre leurs ovules et à se proposer comme mères porteuses, avant de revenir vers leur activité initiale. Notre propos est notamment de démontrer que si ces femmes sont bien exploitées par une industrie des corps, elles n’en tirent pas nécessairement un sentiment d’aliénation. De manière …
Color of Violence
Book Review| April 01 2009 Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, Incite! Women of Color against Violence. Sharmila Rudrappa Sharmila Rudrappa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543446 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sharmila Rudra…
Red Tape
What to Expect When You're Expecting
This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded in the larger literature on care work. Building from the scholarship on intimate labors, the author shows that surrogacy involves not just affective states of being; instead, s…
Genetic identity as a regime of truth
Through examining cases of cross-border surrogacy in Israel and the United States, we offer the concept of genetic kinning defined as the narratives deployed by individuals that give prominence to genetic relatedness between offspring and parents to highlight immutable similarities between parents, and by extension, grandparents and ancestors. The deployment of genetic kinning narratives does not happen in a vacuum; instead, nation-state bodies e…
No Reproductive Justice with no Ceasefire in Palestine
Land, women and techno-pastoral development in southern Karnataka, India
Radical Caring in an Ethnic Shelter
The author examines South Asian American women caregivers in two domestic violence organizations, namely Apna Ghar, the Chicago shelter for battered immigrant women, and Saheli, a support group for abuse survivors in Austin, Texas. Through informal interviews with Apna Ghar workers and Saheli volunteers and participant observation at Apna Ghar, she outlines the concept of 'radical caring.' Radical caring emerges at the conjunction of individual a…
Radical Caring in an Ethnic Shelter
The author examines South Asian American women caregivers in two domestic violence organizations, namely Apna Ghar, the Chicago shelter for battered immigrant women, and Saheli, a support group for abuse survivors in Austin, Texas. Through informal interviews with Apna Ghar workers and Saheli volunteers and participant observation at Apna Ghar, she outlines the concept of 'radical caring.' Radical caring emerges at the conjunction of individual a…
Madness, Diasporic Difference, and State Violence
This article examines the state's mobilization of difference in meting out irrational violence through juxtaposing two filicidal cases, those of Andrea Yates and Sailaja Hathaway. Biological deviance in Andrea Yates's case and cultural difference in Sailaja Hathaway's case are used to administer retributive justice. However, in deciding on the cases of `mad' mothers, the state appears irrationally violent. First, ideas on what is culturally drive…
Color of Violence
Book Review| April 01 2009 Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, Incite! Women of Color against Violence. Sharmila Rudrappa Sharmila Rudrappa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543446 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sharmila Rudra…
Social Science
Flat Broke in the Free Market
Birth in the age of Aids
Sharmila RudrappaDepartment of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, [email protected]© 2014, Sharmila Rudrappa
Des ateliers de confection aux lignes d'assemblage des bébés
Cet article analyse les trajectoires d’emploi de femmes à Bangalore, dans le Sud de l’Inde. Employées dans l’industrie de la confection, certaines en viennent à vendre leurs ovules et à se proposer comme mères porteuses, avant de revenir vers leur activité initiale. Notre propos est notamment de démontrer que si ces femmes sont bien exploitées par une industrie des corps, elles n’en tirent pas nécessairement un sentiment d’aliénation. De manière …
Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets
The Many Meanings of Surrogacy
Locating Surrogacy in Child Sharing and Wage Labor
Reproductive Interventions
Surrogacy as a Gift
Babies as Commodities
Introduction
Conclusion
Fetuses as Persons, Surrogate Mothers as Nonpersons
Discounted Life
Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational Asia Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations look for wombs in which to grow their babies. Some…
Red Tape
Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers
What makes a multimillion-dollar, transnational intimate industry possible when most people see it as exploitative? Using the newly emergent case of commercial surrogacy in India, this article extends the literature on stratified reproduction and intimate industries by examining how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the 'rent-a-womb industry' and 'baby factory.' Using interview data with eight infertility specialists,…
What to Expect When You're Expecting
This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded in the larger literature on care work. Building from the scholarship on intimate labors, the author shows that surrogacy involves not just affective states of being; instead, s…
Land, women and techno-pastoral development in southern Karnataka, India
Reproducing Dystopia
In the decade following legalization of commercial surrogacy in 2002, India became the largest provider of surrogacy services. Then, in December 2015 commercial surrogacy was banned. In this article I show that commercial surrogacy was no panacea for working-class women, but the ban can potentially be far worse because the Indian state now allows only altruistic surrogacy between citizen couples and their women kinfolk who will provide gestation …
Discounted Life
"India is the world's top provider of surrogacy services, with a multi-million-dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially. Some scholars have praised transnational surrogacy for the possibilities it opens for infertile couples, while others have offered bioethical cautionary tales or lamented the exploitation of surrogate mothers - but very little is known about the relationship between surrogate mothers and intended parents o…
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans
This concluding article, building from observations of the industry from 2008 onwards, examines the practices of commercial and altruistic surrogacy in India. Commercial surrogacy is built on atomized market relationships, where exchanges are mediated by money. The author shows how exploitation is at the heart of production in commercial surrogacy. Altruistic surrogacy is built on gift-like giving between social actors engaged in ongoing exchange…
Genetic identity as a regime of truth
Through examining cases of cross-border surrogacy in Israel and the United States, we offer the concept of genetic kinning defined as the narratives deployed by individuals that give prominence to genetic relatedness between offspring and parents to highlight immutable similarities between parents, and by extension, grandparents and ancestors. The deployment of genetic kinning narratives does not happen in a vacuum; instead, nation-state bodies e…
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