The Infertile Body in the Clinic: Medicalization, Gaze, and Loss of Agency in Women’s Infertility Comics

“Wombs-for-Hire”: Biopolitics and Neoliberal Eugenics of Indian Commercial Surrogacy Industry in Amulya Malladi's A House for Happy Mothers

“…As Braidotti (1994) points out, in the age of biopower and biomedicine, the embodied subject is "cannibalised by the practices of the scientific techno-apparati" (p. 47). Elsewhere Venkatesan and Murali (2020) contend that "medicalisation allows the medical discourse to amass power and influence over its subjects, denying them autonomy and agency" (p. 2). Under the gaze of the biomedical engineers, the surrogate loses her attributes as a human being.…”