Abstracts for Contributed Papers

In the context of her observations about science and race, Sandra Harding once observed that “the Baby M case could be the forerunner of the use of poor and third world women’s wombs to produce children for economically advantaged European American couples” (1986, 2003). Harding’s predictions are practically a reality. Commercial gestational surrogacy is now a transnational phenomenon. Can Western feminism’s “Post-Baby M” observations on surrogacy, as it is practiced in the global north, simply be extended to make sense of this emerging market? Or do we need to rethink surrogacy in light of globalization? If so, what theoretical tools should we use to make sense of this growing practice?