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India’s Reproductive Assembly Line

2012; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1536504212446456

1537-6052

Sharmila Rudrappa,

Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Why do working class women in India choose to become surrogate mothers? Sociologist Sharmila Rudrappa explains that these decisions make sense when contexualized within larger changes in the economy, the appallingly low wages these women command for their labor, and the lack of meaningful work.