The lure of hope : on the transnational surrogacy trail from Australia to India / Michaela Stockey-Bridge.

Vancouver ; Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2018]

xxxiv, 145 pages ; 24 cm.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Macquarie University, Department of Anthropology, 2014) issued under title: Finding hope on the transnational surrogacy trail from Australia to India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Genealogies of transnational commercial surrogacy: Australia and India -- Surrogates in India : class and social context -- The intending parents : the narrow pathways of Intending Parents' journeys -- Finding the clinic: surrogate recruitment networks and understanding the body as saleable -- Caretakers and conversion : caretakers' narratives -- The lure of hope: locating the clinic and finding hope -- The rhetoric of tragedy and the experience of disaster -- Transnational surrogacy, kinship, connectedness and the gift -- Conclusion.