“This is a Business Transaction, Fundamentally”: Surrogate Motherhood in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers
Meera Syal’s latest novel, The House of Hidden Mothers (2015), depicts the current practice of international surrogacy and raises questions about this form of reproduction which commodifies babies and constructs poor women’s bodies in India and elsewhere as sites of reproductive exploitation. Non...
Main Author: | Irene Pérez Fernández |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
2018-12-01
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Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/6302 |
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