Solid : Liquid: A (Trans)National Reproductive Formation

Solid : Liquid examines the complex interactions between reproductive technologies, immigration, and identity across borders between India and the United States. Through research and case studies spanning both nations, Sangari tracks how reproduction and fertility treatments create networks of biological materials, medical procedures, and human relationships. The book follows several key narratives involving surrogacy arrangements, egg donation, and assisted reproductive technology (ART) clinics operating transnationally. These interlinked stories reveal how class, gender, and nationality shape access to and experiences with fertility services. By analyzing both personal accounts and broader institutional systems, Sangari demonstrates how reproduction becomes a site where national boundaries simultaneously dissolve and reassert themselves. The work explores fundamental questions about kinship, commodification of the body, and the role of technology in creating new forms of global connection and inequality.

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🔹 Kumkum Sangari is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has been a pioneering voice in feminist literary criticism and cultural studies in South Asia for over three decades. 🔹 The book explores how reproductive politics in India intersects with issues of class, caste, religion, and nationalism, examining practices like surrogacy, adoption, and assisted reproductive technologies. 🔹 "Solid : Liquid" uses the metaphor of states of matter to analyze how reproductive practices flow across national boundaries while also remaining solidly rooted in local contexts and power structures. 🔹 The work builds on Sangari's previous groundbreaking research on gender and colonialism, including her influential co-edited volume "Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History" (1989). 🔹 The book contributes to transnational feminist scholarship by examining how global capital and local patriarchies interact in the contemporary reproductive marketplace of India.