Jyotsna Gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6664526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jyotsna Gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jyotsna |
| FAMILY NAME | Gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Humanistic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7258-5480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mothers for life? Exploring emotional vulnerability of Indian commercial surrogate mothers
In this article, we look at the predicament of Indian commercial surrogates and how they cope with the knowledge that the child they are carrying must be relinquished by them soon after delivery. How can a surrogate distance herself emotionally from the baby she is carrying? And to what extent is she supported by other surrogates, her family members and the social environment? Much has been written about the economic and social vulnerability of I…
Reproductive biocrossings
A growing number of infertile couples and other individuals desiring children are seeking to fulfill their desire for parenthood transnationally through the use of donor gametes and a surrogate. The number of “fertility tourists” from developed countries to low-income countries is growing phenomenally. Indian women, too, are participating as (re)producers in these “biocrossings,” turning India into the surrogacy outsourcing capital of the world i…
Parenthood in the era of Reproductive Outsourcing and Global Assemblages
Technologies to assist reproduction are deconstructing conventional scripts regarding age, parenting and sexuality. Helping individuals and infertile couples with a child wish has become a thriving global business. Women's reproductive bodies and their reproductive body parts have been turned into commodities that are donated or traded. Several centers all over the world are dealing in reproductive body parts, and functioning as global assembly p…
Exploring appropriation of “surplus” ova and embryos in Indian IVF clinics
IVF clinics have emerged and are proliferating even in small towns of India. There is hardly any regulation or oversight regarding what happens to “surplus” ova and embryos, the potential raw material for embryonic stem cell research. India is an emerging economy where both public and private initiatives in stem cell research exist and are proliferating. There is a lack of transparency regarding the supply of stem cells required for research. Bas…
Exploring Indian women's reproductive decision-making regarding prenatal testing
Pregnant women in large cities and small towns of India are increasingly undergoing prenatal testing (PNT) on the advice of medical practitioners to ensure foetal health and to prevent the birth of disabled children. In the last two decades, several studies have been conducted in India to determine the extent of proliferation of PNT for sex selection, the profile of women/couples who avail themselves of it and their attitudes towards it, but hard…
Towards Transnational Feminisms
This article discusses the emergence of the concept of ‘transnational feminisms’ as a differentiated notion from ‘global sisterhood’ within feminist postcolonial criticism. This is done in order to examine its usefulness for interrogating the globalization of reproductive technologies and women’s right to selfdetermination over their own bodies by using these technologies. In particular, women’s use of technologies for assisted conception, and th…
People like you never agree to get it ̳
Presented is a transcript of audiotaped interaction between patients and family planning providers at an urban hospital in India. Providers included a female physician an assistant female physician 2 male junior doctors and an ayah (helper). Striking is the irritable impatient non-empathic tone of the senior physicians interactions with both clients and assisting staff. Clients are repeatedly addressed with a Hindi term Rani used by parents for t…
Towards Transnational Feminisms
This article discusses the emergence of the concept of ‘transnational feminisms’ as a differentiated notion from ‘global sisterhood’ within feminist postcolonial criticism. This is done in order to examine its usefulness for interrogating the globalization of reproductive technologies and women’s right to selfdetermination over their own bodies by using these technologies. In particular, women’s use of technologies for assisted conception, and th…
People like you never agree to get it ̳
Presented is a transcript of audiotaped interaction between patients and family planning providers at an urban hospital in India. Providers included a female physician an assistant female physician 2 male junior doctors and an ayah (helper). Striking is the irritable impatient non-empathic tone of the senior physicians interactions with both clients and assisting staff. Clients are repeatedly addressed with a Hindi term Rani used by parents for t…
Parenthood in the era of Reproductive Outsourcing and Global Assemblages
Technologies to assist reproduction are deconstructing conventional scripts regarding age, parenting and sexuality. Helping individuals and infertile couples with a child wish has become a thriving global business. Women's reproductive bodies and their reproductive body parts have been turned into commodities that are donated or traded. Several centers all over the world are dealing in reproductive body parts, and functioning as global assembly p…
People like you never agree to get it ̳
Presented is a transcript of audiotaped interaction between patients and family planning providers at an urban hospital in India. Providers included a female physician an assistant female physician 2 male junior doctors and an ayah (helper). Striking is the irritable impatient non-empathic tone of the senior physicians interactions with both clients and assisting staff. Clients are repeatedly addressed with a Hindi term Rani used by parents for t…
Towards Transnational Feminisms
This article discusses the emergence of the concept of ‘transnational feminisms’ as a differentiated notion from ‘global sisterhood’ within feminist postcolonial criticism. This is done in order to examine its usefulness for interrogating the globalization of reproductive technologies and women’s right to selfdetermination over their own bodies by using these technologies. In particular, women’s use of technologies for assisted conception, and th…
Exploring Indian women's reproductive decision-making regarding prenatal testing
Pregnant women in large cities and small towns of India are increasingly undergoing prenatal testing (PNT) on the advice of medical practitioners to ensure foetal health and to prevent the birth of disabled children. In the last two decades, several studies have been conducted in India to determine the extent of proliferation of PNT for sex selection, the profile of women/couples who avail themselves of it and their attitudes towards it, but hard…
Exploring appropriation of “surplus” ova and embryos in Indian IVF clinics
IVF clinics have emerged and are proliferating even in small towns of India. There is hardly any regulation or oversight regarding what happens to “surplus” ova and embryos, the potential raw material for embryonic stem cell research. India is an emerging economy where both public and private initiatives in stem cell research exist and are proliferating. There is a lack of transparency regarding the supply of stem cells required for research. Bas…
Reproductive biocrossings
A growing number of infertile couples and other individuals desiring children are seeking to fulfill their desire for parenthood transnationally through the use of donor gametes and a surrogate. The number of “fertility tourists” from developed countries to low-income countries is growing phenomenally. Indian women, too, are participating as (re)producers in these “biocrossings,” turning India into the surrogacy outsourcing capital of the world i…
Parenthood in the era of Reproductive Outsourcing and Global Assemblages
Technologies to assist reproduction are deconstructing conventional scripts regarding age, parenting and sexuality. Helping individuals and infertile couples with a child wish has become a thriving global business. Women's reproductive bodies and their reproductive body parts have been turned into commodities that are donated or traded. Several centers all over the world are dealing in reproductive body parts, and functioning as global assembly p…
Mothers for life? Exploring emotional vulnerability of Indian commercial surrogate mothers
In this article, we look at the predicament of Indian commercial surrogates and how they cope with the knowledge that the child they are carrying must be relinquished by them soon after delivery. How can a surrogate distance herself emotionally from the baby she is carrying? And to what extent is she supported by other surrogates, her family members and the social environment? Much has been written about the economic and social vulnerability of I…
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works)