Lure of Hope

India was the first among a trail of "pop up" third-party reproductive destinations including Thailand, Nepal, Mexico, and now Cambodia. Alongside the detailed ethnographic account of the experiences of parents and surrogate mothers the author offers a careful analysis of regulatory systems governing surrogacy and embryo use in Australia and India.

Michaela Stockey-Bridge is research associate at the University of Technology Sydney.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Genealogies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy: Australia and India Chapter 2: Surrogates in India: Class and Social Context Chapter 3: The Intending Parents: the Narrow Pathways of IP Journeys Chapter 4: Finding the Clinic: Surrogate Recruitment Networks and the Saleable Body Chapter 5: Caretakers and Conversion: Caretaker Narratives Chapter 6: The Lure of Hope: Locating the Clinic and Finding Hope Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Tragedy and the Experience of Disaster Chapter 8: Transnational Surrogacy, Kinship, Connectedness and the Gift Conclusion Terminology References Appendix About the Author