As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new
kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its lived realities become an …

Background: If maternal breastfeeding is not possible, wet nursing allows infants to receive
the nutrition and protection against disease that breastfeeding provides. Such protection …

How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no
choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How'free'are …

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ayahs were a familiar sight on board
ships, caring for the children of British families as they travelled to and from 'home'. Existing …

Not quite part of the family and more than just an employee; idealised and demonised, the
nanny has always had a difficult role in family life. Any discussion of nannies arouses strong …

The article argues that transnational adoption and surrogacy from South Korea and India are
shaped through US and British imperial and colonial histories in Korea and India …

Colonial domesticity in India was often a fraught exercise. Guidebooks such as Flora Annie
Steel and Grace Gardiner's The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook offered advice on …

Despite the growing sociological and anthropological literature on paid care-giving and
domestic work, there continues to be a gap in the scholarship on delegated care work …

There is no way a bhadralok (respectable middle-class) can function for a moment without a
servant. One needs servants to perform domestic chores; servants are necessary even to …

Adopting a diachronic perspective, this article explains that childcare and education was,
since Ancient times, delegated to non-related persons (governesses, wet nurses, nannies …