“Wombs-for-Hire”: Biopolitics and Neoliberal Eugenics of Indian Commercial Surrogacy Industry in Amulya Malladi's A House for Happy Mothers

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Media Watch Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.15655/mw_2021_v12i1_205459

Eva Sharma, Isha Malhotra

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The commercial surrogacy industry in India has become a site of neoliberal eugenics and state-led bio-politics. Individuals can make certain reproductive choices by commissioning the bodies of less privileged women surrogates. The advancements of biomedicines and biotechnology have furthered the revival of the consumer-driven neoliberal market place, reducing surrogates to mere “wombs-for-hire.” The paper examines Amulya Malladi’s A House for Happy Mothers (2016) to explore the bioeconomic and bioethical paradigms related to exploitative surrogacy practices based on systemic and structural inequalities of class and gender in India. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Foucault’s biopolitics and Nikolas Rose’s neoliberal eugenic politics, an attempt is made to unpack the problematics of the medico-industrial complex of the fast-growing Indian fertility industry.

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“雇佣女性”：Amulya Malladi的《快乐母亲之家》中印度商业代孕行业的生物政治和新自由主义优生学

印度的商业代孕行业已经成为新自由主义优生学和国家主导的生物政治的场所。个人可以通过委托特权较低的女性代孕者的身体来做出某些生育选择。生物医药和生物技术的进步进一步推动了消费者驱动的新自由主义市场的复兴，使代孕者沦为“出租子宫”。“本文研究了Amulya Malladi的《幸福母亲之家》（2016），以探索与基于印度阶级和性别的系统性和结构性不平等的剥削性代孕行为相关的生物经济和生物伦理范式。借鉴福柯的生物政治学和尼古拉斯·罗斯的新自由主义优生学的理论框架，试图揭示快速增长的印度生育产业的医疗-工业复合体的问题。

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