Reproductive Labour: Exceptional for Whom? Notes from Mumbai
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Channel: King's College London · 2016 · Education
This lecture is part of the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy’s Inaugural Lecture Series. Professor Parry examines the recent growth of commercially assisted reproductive services in India. This expansion has been accompanied by a similarly explosive growth in populist narratives that assert that one of the services offered by such clinics, gestational surrogacy (in which usually poor women are paid to carry a foetus to term) is a form of labour that is exploitative and should thus be banned. Although superficially compelling, such arguments have only rarely been subject to critical review. Utilising insights from anthropology, the history of science and law, Professor Parry takes up the challenge of unpacking and complicating this narrative.
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