Resumen

PEREZ HERNANDEZ, Yolinliztli. Surrogate pregnancy: An ethnographic review to contribute to the debate in Mexico. Debate fem. [online]. 2018, vol.56, pp.85-109.  Epub 20-Nov-2020. ISSN 2594-066X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2018.56.05.

This essay seeks to contribute to the debate on surrogate pregnancy in Mexico through a review of the ethnographic literature in sociology and anthropology. This literature provides an invaluable, contextual and detailed description of the phenomenon of having “been there”, making it possible to qualify the universalist, abstract and victimist statements about the practice and the people who participate in it. Ethnographies on “gestation for others” undertaken in the Global South are especially instructive for the Mexican case. In countries such as India and Thailand, this social phenomenon has followed patterns similar to those of Mexico. This reflective exercise will allow us, at the same time, to link the discussions on the legal regulation of surrogate pregnancy, particularly in its commercial version, with certain feminist debates on the practice, such as the links between motherhood, pregnancy and (re)productive work.

Palabras llave : Surrogate pregnancy; Mexico; Maternity; Employment.