About the Book: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in
India
As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around
reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its
lived realities become an important aspect of emerging research. This book maps
the way in which in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialists, surrogacy agents,
commissioning couples, surrogate mothers, and egg donors contribute to the
understanding of interpersonal relations in the process of commercial surrogacy.
In this book, Majumdar draws from a context that is enmeshed in the localglobal
politics of reproduction, including the ways in which the transnational
commercial surrogacy arrangement has led to an