Le privé est politique… et économique ! Pour une économie politique du travail de gestation pour autrui

Marlène Jouan (marlene.jouan@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) and Clémence Clos (clemence.clos@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)
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Marlène Jouan: IPhiG - Institut de Philosophie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Clémence Clos: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: In the public debate about surrogacy, to qualify what surrogates do as a kind of "work" is widely perceived as a way of supporting the forms of commodifica-tion and exploitation that target women's bodies in global circuits of the bioeconomy. As against this construal, which accompanies the moral condemnation of this reproductive practice particularly in its "commercial" version, the article offers a feminist plea for the conceptualization of surrogacy as work. Based on ethnographic inquiries conducted among Indian surrogates, and theoretically informed by Marxism, the ethics of care and the notion of intersectionality, the article aims, in fine, to highlight the fecundity of this conceptualization not only for the full recognition of the surrogates, but also for a critical diagnosis of the divisions of labour that structure capitalist society.

Keywords: gestation pour autrui; travail; système capitaliste; économie politique; droit des femmes; mère porteuse; Inde (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Nouvelles questions féministes, 2020, 39 (2), pp.47-61. ⟨10.3917/nqf.392.0047⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/nqf.392.0047

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