Contractual Transaction: How Renting a Uterus Makes the Human Body a Commodity in Nepal

Subedi, Madhusudan

doi:10.3126/dsaj.v9i0.14020

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“…Women;s body can be used as a way to get a child by people in surrogacy. According to Subedi (2015), the surrogate mother is viewed as a tool whose benefit can be turned for money in surrogacy arrangements. It clear that surrogacy can make women experience commodification due to the process when they get paid for their egg, renting their womb, and bear the child.…”

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A Marxist Reading of Little Fires Everywhere (2017) By Celeste Ng

Sagita

Wahyuni

2020

ELL

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This thesis is an analysis of a novel written by Celeste Ng entitled Little Fires Everywhere (2017). This analysis looks at the commodification and alienation that is experienced by women who involved in surrogacy and adoption. This analysis employes Marxist literary theory to explain the phenomena in the novel. The analysis focuses on two issues of commodification and alienation that are proposed by Karl Marx as seen through two female protagonists which are Mia Warren and Bebe Chow. This analysis also depends a lot on the narrator to determine which parts of the novel are used as the data. The result of the study shows that Mia Warren experienced commodification of the human body and four kinds of alienation such as alienation from the product of labor, alienation from the act of production, alienation from the species being, and alienation from other people bacause she becomes a surrogate mother. The other protagonist, Bebe Chow, also experienced four kinds of alienation because her child is adopted.

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Section: A Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%