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Engaging with the idea of emerging forms of families and meanings of kinship in a transnational world through ethnographic research, kinship, gender studies and science and technology studies, this work draws from a context that is enmeshed in the local-global politics of reproduction, including the ways in which the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement has led to an engaging and ongoing debate regarding ethics and morality in the sphere of reproductive rights.

Surrogate motherhood. --- Surrogate mothers --- India.

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Over the past twenty years, a convergence of scientific, demographic, legal and social developments has led to a significant increase in cases of international surrogacy. Parenthood has become a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the law has been left behind in the wake of advances in artificial reproductive techniques, and rapid social changes. Lawyers, politicians, ethicists and health care professionals have struggled to develop suitable legal frameworks to ensure the protection of surrogates from exploitation, while also combating the vulnerability of intended parents to agencies and intermediaries, and ensuring that the rights of children born as a result of surrogacy are adequately protected.

The transnational nature of surrogacy - with intended parents often crossing national boundaries to achieve their desire of become parents - has meant that individual states have difficulty taking decisive action to regulate this practice. Moreover, surrogacy remains a highly politicised ethical issue, with different responses to the question of whether surrogacy should be permitted, and if so, on what grounds.

This book is the first comprehensive engagement with surrogacy and surrounding issues in Latin America in the English language. It examines the approaches taken in Latin American jurisdictions, bringing together experts from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. It provides an overview of the national developments and current legal reform processes in their historical and societal contexts and puts these developments into a global perspective.

Surrogate mothers --- Parent and child (Law) --- Surrogate motherhood --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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La gestation pour autrui donne lieu à des proclamations passionnées et affectives, où il est question d'amour et de don, de bonnes intentions qui seraient donc inattaquables. Elle touche cependant à des enjeux trop fondamentaux pour qu'on puisse se résigner à la voir traitée à coup de slogans et de joutes médiatiques. Une argumentation rationnelle et cohérente s'impose. De nombreux intérêts individuels sont en jeu, dont celui de l'enfant, le plus vulnérable. Il y va aussi du type de société que l'on construit. La gestation pour autrui est pratiquée depuis plusieurs années dans quelques pays. Ce livre décrit de façon concrète la réalité de sa mise en ouvre, en particulier en droit américain. Il donne à voir l'étendue de l'emprise consentie par la mère porteuse sur son corps et sa vie intime, les droits et libertés fondamentales auxquels elle renonce au profit du couple commanditaire, la modification juridique de la notion de filiation à laquelle elle conduit, ou encore les nouveaux rapports de classe qu'elle introduit. Le tableau ainsi dessiné par des cas bien concrets permet à chacun de regarder la réalité en face. On ne pourra pas dire qu'on ne savait pas. Une simple description fait parfois un pamphlet.

Surrogate mothers --- Human reproductive technology --- Mères porteuses --- Procréation médicalement assistée --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- Surrogate motherhood --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Gestation pour autrui --- Aspect moral --- Mères porteuses --- Procréation médicalement assistée --- Aspect moral. --- Droit. --- Surrogate motherhood - Moral and ethical aspects --- Surrogate motherhood - Law and legislation --- France --- Droit médical

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Surrogate motherhood --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Body --- Philosophical Essay --- Bioethics --- Procreation --- Surrogate Mothers --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Surrogate motherhood - Moral and ethical aspects --- Surrogate Mothers. --- Mères porteuses --- Mères de substitution --- Bioéthique --- Dignité de la personne (droit) --- Femmes --- France --- Droit --- Droits --- Mères porteuses --- Mères de substitution --- Bioéthique --- Dignité de la personne (droit)

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This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core narratives of supporters and opponents of surrogacy, in order to understand this reproductive practice in light of some of the essential elements of contemporary societies, such as the “child at any cost” culture, individualism, technology and female emancipation. This book appeals to scholars, policy makers and all those who want to understand the controversial debate on this unprecedented method of family formation and life production.

Gender studies, gender groups --- Central government policies --- Social work --- Labour economics --- Open Access --- Surrogate motherhood --- Reproductive work --- Assisted reproduction --- Feminist abolitionists --- Women's empowerment --- Commodification of women and children --- Reproductive rights --- Child's rights --- Gestational surrogacy