ABSTRACT Feminist analysis of surrogacy remains caught between calls for abolition on the one hand, and regulation, on the other. Within this dualistic discourse, the question of recognizing commercial gestational surrogacy as a new form of work–labor remains undermined. This paper brings together the abolition-regulation conceptual framework to examine surrogacy as work–labor. Based on ethnographic research conducted in two surrogacy hotspots in India, it illustrates how women understand and construct meaning from their labor as surrogates. In doing so, the study extends the existing feminist framework, using ethnographic research, to open up a space where the labor of surrogacy can be looked upon as both empowering and subjugating at the same time and in differing ways.

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赋权与征服：在印度重新将商业代孕视为工作-劳动

摘要 女权主义对代孕的分析仍然夹在一方面要求废除，另一方面要求监管之间。在这种二元论的话语中，将商业代孕视为一种新的工作形式的问题仍然受到削弱。本文汇集了废除监管的概念框架，以将代孕视为工作-劳动。基于在印度两个代孕热点地区进行的人种学研究，它说明了女性如何从代孕的劳动中理解和构建意义。在这样做的过程中，该研究扩展了现有的女权主义框架，利用人种学研究开辟了一个空间，在这个空间中，代孕的劳动可以被视为同时以不同的方式赋予权力和征服。