"It may be her eggs but it's my blood": Surrogates and everyday forms of kinship in India

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-397

  Pande, Amrita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial surrogacy; Everyday forms of kinship; India; Kin work

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949269035     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-009-9138-0     Document Type: Article

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