Amrita Pande

Amrita Pande, author of Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India (2014: Columbia University Press) is Associate Professor in the Sociology department at University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on the intersection of globalization and the intimate. Her work has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Gender and Society, Critical Social Policy, International Migration Review, Qualitative Sociology, Feminist Studies, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Anthropologica, PhiloSOPHIA, Reproductive BioMedicine, in numerous edited volumes and newspapers. She is also an educator-performer touring the world with a performance lecture series, Made in India: Notes from a Baby Farm based on her ethnographic work on surrogacy. She is currently writing a monograph the “global fertility flows”, of eggs, sperms, embryos and wombs, connecting the world in unexpected ways.