TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zehelein, Eva-Sabine
T1  - "India is our twins’ motherland:" transnational cross-racial gestational surrogacy and the maternal body in "IP memoirs"
T2  - Feminist encounters
N2  - Memoirs by women (from the Global North) who have employed a gestational host (from the Global South) to become mothers are situated in a force field of intersecting discourses about gender, race and class. The article sheds light on the characteristic dynamics of this special sub-genre of ‘mommy lit’ (Hewett), labelled ‘IP memoirs,’ with a special emphasis on memoirs featuring transnational cross-racial gestational surrogacy arrangements in India. These texts do not only present narratives of painful infertility experiences, autopathographic self-blame, and scriptotherapeutic quests towards happiness, i.e. (a) child(ren), but also speak back to knotty issues such as potential exploitation, commodification, colonisation and disenfranchisement, as well as genetic essentialism in the context of systemic inequities.
KW  - India
KW  - gestational surrogacy
KW  - IP memoir
KW  - autopathography
KW  - matriography
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55014
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550148
SN  - 2468-4414
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 3
IS  - 1-2, Art. 11
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Lectito Journals
CY  - The Hague
ER  -