Reconfiguring reproduction : feminist health perspectives on assisted reproductive technologies

Reconfiguring reproduction : feminist health perspectives on assisted reproductive technologies 
by Sarojini N.; Vrinda Marwah
Language: English 
New Delhi : Zubaan, 2014. 
1 volume ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 9789383074525 ; 9383074523 
Summary: Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women’s bodies. Viewed by some as a technological quick-fix for infertility, ARTs create both challenges and opportunities, and responses to them have sought to balance questions of ethics, rights, and politics. With essays by eminent academics and activists, Reconfiguring Reproduction examines the ART industry by bringing a feminist health lens to bear on the experiences of women in countries such as Korea, Canada, the United States, Israel, Australia, India, and others. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reconfiguring-Reproduction-Perspectives-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/9383074523
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Feminist theory

Cross-cultural comparisons on surrogacy and egg donation : interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

Cross-cultural comparisons on surrogacy and egg donation : interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel 
by Sayani Mitra; Silke Schicktanz; Vikram Patel 
Language: English 
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]. 
xv, 399 pages 
ISBN: 9783319786698 ; 3319786695 
Summary: This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and cultural sciences, bioethics, law as well as psychology and provides critical-reflective comparative analysis of the socio-ethical factors shaping surrogacy and egg donation practices across these three countries. This book highlights the importance of a comparative perspective to?make sense? of controversies and transitions in this highly contested area of artificial reproductive technologies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Cultural-Comparisons-Surrogacy-Donation-Interdisciplinary/dp/3319786695
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Cross-cultural studies
• Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- India
• Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- Israel
• Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- Germany
• Oocyte donation
• Cross-cultural comparison

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India
by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Language: English
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1138610968 ; 9781138610965
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realized.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Fertility-Health-Reproductive-Politics-Re-imagining/dp/1138610968
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- India
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects

Conceptions : infertilities and procreative technologies in India

Conceptions : infertilities and procreative technologies in India 
by Aditya Bharadwaj 
Language: English 
New York : Berghahn Books, 2016. 
276 p. ; illus. : cm. 
ISBN: 9781785332302 ; 1785332309 
Summary: Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These ‘conceptions’ are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This longitudinal study is situated in a number of diverse locales which, when taken together, unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India. 
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BharadwajConceptions