Publications

Books

1. Majumdar, Anindita. 2019. Surrogacy: Oxford India Short Introductions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

2. Majumdar, Anindita. 2017. Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 

Edited Journal Special Issues

1.     Majumdar, Anindita. Ed. 2022. ‘Symposium: Reproductive technologies and the conceptualization of the biological clock’. Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online, 14: doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2022.02.001 [contributions from Nolwenn Buhler, Lucy van de Wiel, Heather Jacobson and Anindita Majumdar].

2.     Kaur, Ravinder, Paro Mishra and Anindita Majumdar. (eds). 2021. ‘Entanglements of Reproductive Practices in India: Sex Ratios, Fertility, Birthing, and the New Reproductive Technologies’. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies [Special Issue]. 

3.     Majumdar, Anindita. Ed. 2021. ‘Contending with the hourglass: Time, reproduction and the problematization of ageing’. Anthropology and Aging, 42 (1): 1-111. [Contributions from Lynette Sievert, Lauren Jade Martin, Emily Wentzell, Charlotte Krolokke, Paro Mishra and Ravinder Kaur and Anindita Majumdar].

4.     Majumdar, Anindita, Ravinder Kaur and Paro Mishra (eds). 2021. ‘Reproduction, demography and cultural anxieties in India and China’, Asian Bioethics Review, 13 (1): 1-127. [Contributions from Shuzhuo Li and Yang Meng, Gu Xiaorong, Christina Weis, Rajani Bhatia, Ravinder Kaur, Paro Mishra, and Anindita Majumdar].

5.     Majumdar, Anindita and Yoko Taguchi (eds). 2021. ‘Kinship as fiction: Exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in India’, Contemporary South Asia, 29 (1): 1-110 [Contributions from Mizuho Matsuo, Ester Gallo, Chandan Bose, Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe, Yoko Taguchi, Sae Nakamura and Anindita Majumdar]. 

Journal Publications 

1. Heather Jacobson, Anika König & Anindita Majumdar (2023): Im/ mobility in the transnational surrogacy market: disruptions and vulnerabilities in and beyond pandemic times. Applied Mobilities, DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2023.2274238 

2. Thapar-Björkert, S., Majumdar, A., & Gondouin, J. 2023. “There are two sides to everything”: Re (locating) vulnerability in the surrogacy industry in India. Feminism & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535231172592

3. Majumdar, Anindita. 2023. Infertility as inevitable: Chronic lifestyles, temporal inevitability and the making of abnormal bodies in India. Anthropology and Medicine, 30(2): 120-134. 

4. Majumdar, Anindita. 2022. Outliers and rogue doctors: Manufacturing ‘anxiety’ around older mothers in India. Medical Anthropology, 41 (6-7): 616-29.

5. Konig, Anika and Anindita Majumdar. 2022. Paperwork: Following the trail of (identity) papers in transnational commercial surrogacy. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 63 (5-6): 247-64.

6. Majumdar, Anindita. 2022. “Surrogacy as Labor.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press. Article published April 20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.169.

7. Majumdar, Anindita. 2022. Conceptualising aged reproduction: genetic connectedness, son preference and assisted reproduction in North India. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 14: 182-191.

8.  Majumdar, Anindita and Asif Qureshi. 2022. Thinking about infertility from a mixed methods perspective: the need to look at toxicity in rural India. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 29 (2): 1-7. 

9. Majumdar, Sreya and Anindita Majumdar. 2021. The birth professionals: Emerging practices of birthing in contemporary India. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 27 (4): 555-574.

10. Majumdar, Anindita. 2021. 'Introduction: Contending with the hourglass: Time, reproduction and the problematization of ageing', Anthropology and Aging, 42 (1): 1-9.

11. Majumdar, Anindita. 2021. ‘Assisted reproductive technologies and the conceptualization of ageing in India’, Anthropology and Aging, 42 (1): 49-65.

12. Majumdar, Anindita. 2021. 'The birthing precariat: Altruism in the service of capital', Anveshi Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics, special issue on 'State Capital Nexus: Implications for Labour' (edited by Padmini Swaminathan and Uma Rani), 15.

13. Majumdar, Anindita.2021. ‘Remembering deceased kin through assisted conception in India’, Contemporary South Asia, 29(1): 24-36.

14. Taguchi, Yoko and Anindita Majumdar. 2021. [Introduction to the Special Issue], ‘Kinship as fiction: Exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in South Asia’. Contemporary South Asia, 29 (1): 1-9. 

15. Majumdar, Anindita. 2021. ‘Ageing and reproductive decline in assisted reproductive technologies in India: Mapping the “management” of eggs and wombs’, Asian Bioethics Review, 13 (1): 39-55. 

16. Majumdar, Anindita, Paro Mishra and Ravinder Kaur. 2021. ‘Editorial: social sciences, bioethics and the question of population’, in the special issue on Reproduction and Demographic Anxieties in India and China, Asian Bioethics Review, 13 (1).

17. Majumdar, Anindita. 2018. ‘Conceptualizing surrogacy as work-labour: Domestic labour in commercial gestational surrogacy in India’, Journal of South Asian Development, 13(2): 1-18. 

18. Majumdar, Anindita. 2018.  ‘ARTs and the problematic conceptualization of declining reproduction’, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 3(2): 119-24.

19. Majumdar, Anindita. 2015. ‘In no-man's land: Citizens and kin in transnational commercial Surrogacy in India,’ Contemporary South Asia 23(4): 442-455.

20. Majumdar, Anindita. 2015. ‘Waiting for the womb: Representing assisted reproduction in the infertility clinic waiting room’, India International Centre Quarterly, 42(2): 87–97.

21. Majumdar, Anindita. 2014. ‘Nurturing an alien pregnancy: Surrogate mothers, intended parents and disembodied relationships’, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 21 (2): 199–224.

22. Majumdar, Anindita. 2014. ‘The rhetoric of choice: The feminist debates on reproductive choice in the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India’, Gender, Technology and Development, 18 (2): 275–301.

23. Majumdar, Anindita. 2013. ‘Transnational surrogacy: The “public” selection of selective discourse’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIII (45&46): 24–27.

Book Chapters

1. Majumdar, A. 2023. Conceptualizing surrogacy. In Cecilia Van Hollen and Nayantara Sheoran Appleton (eds). A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology. USA: Wiley Blackwell. 

2. Majumdar, Anindita. 2023. 'Conceiving De-kinning: Practices of Pre-birthing in IVF Clinics in India', in Matsuo Mizuho, Nakamura Sae and Funahashi Kenta (eds), Life, Illness and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness. Oxford and New York: Routledge. 

3. Majumdar, Anindita. 2023. 'Regulating the womb: Reproductive health, bodily integrity, and autonomy in contemporary India', in Smriti Parsheera (Ed.) Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India. New Delhi: Harper Collins.    

4. Majumdar, Anindita. 2019. ‘Beyond essentialism: Ecofeminism and the “friction” between gender and ecology’,  in Anu Aneja (Ed.), Women and Gender Studies in India: Crossings. New Delhi: Routledge. 

5. Nadimpally, Sarojini and Anindita Majumdar. 2017. ‘Recruiting to give birth: Agent-facilitators and the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India’ , in Miranda Davies (Ed.), Babies for Sale? Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction. UK: Zed Books.

   6. Nadimpally, Sarojini and Anindita Majumdar. 2017. ‘Researching assisted conception from a feminist lens’, in Padmini Swaminathan and Kalpana Kannabiran (Eds), Re-presenting Feminist Methodologies: Interdisciplinary Explorations, New Delhi: Routledge.

7.  Majumdar, Anindita. 2016. ‘Surrogate mothers and gay fathers: Navigating the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India’, in Adi Moreno and Susanne Hofmann (Eds), Intimate Economies: Bodies, Emotions and Sexualities on the Global Market (pp. 213-231). UK: Palgrave Series on Globalization.

8. Majumdar, Anindita. 2014. ‘The rhetoric of the womb: The representation of surrogacy in the popular mass media in India’, in Sayantani DasGupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta (eds), Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life (pp. 106–123). Maryland: Lexington Books.

9. Majumdar, Anindita. 2013.  ‘Gender and Perfomativity’, Course 3—MA Programme in Women’s and Gender Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). New Delhi: IGNOU.

10. Majumdar, Anindita. 2011. ‘Ecofeminism’, Course 1—MA Programme in Women’s and Gender Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). New Delhi: IGNOU.

11.  Majumdar, Anindita. 2010. ‘Tribals of Andhra Pradesh’, Course 1—Post-Graduate Diploma in Social Work among Tribals, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). New Delhi: IGNOU.

Online Academic Blogs/ Resources

1.     Konig, Anika, Heather Jacobson and Anindita Majumdar. 2020. ‘ “Pandemic disruptions” in surrogacy arrangements in Germany, USA and India during COVID-19’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 11 August 2020, curated online collection on COVID-19 and SRH/MNH, edited by Emma Varley and Adrienne E. Strong (http://medanthroquarterly.org/2020/08/11/pandemic-disruptions-in-surrogacy-arrangements-in-germany-u-s-a-and-india-during-covid-19/)

2.     Nair, Gayatri, Paro Mishra and Anindita Majumdar. 2020. ‘Risk: care: responsibility: solidarity? Essential labour during the COVID-19 pandemic in India', The Sociological Review, 2 July 2020. (https://www.solidarityandcare.org/stories/essays/risk-care-responsibility-solidarity-essential-labour-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-india )

3. Majumdar, Anindita. 2021. 'Medical Anthropology in South Asia: Mapping the Field', Second Opinion: Newsletter for the Society for Medical Anthropology, 9(1) https://mailchi.mp/8601e1bb6da7/newsletter-of-the-society-for-medical-anthropology-feb-2021-vol-9-no-1#mctoc5

4. Majumdar, Anindita and Sreya Majumdar. 2020. 'The Ethnographer as Advocate: Public Health Advocacy around Reproductive Rights', Sage Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health.

Book Reviews

1. Book Review of Aid and the help: international development and the transnational extraction of care. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024, https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.14074

2. 'Book Review of  Waithood: Gender, Education and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing', Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12721 

3. 'Book Review of Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging', New Genetics and Society, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2022.2063828

4. 'Book Review of The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes', Gender, Place and Culture, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2040798

5. 'Book Review of Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty', Contributions to Indian Sociology, 51(2): 265-67, 2017.

6.  ‘Book Review of Displacement, Revolution and the New Urban Condition’, Interventions, 25 July 2015.

7. ‘Outsourcing Reproduction: Book Review’, Economic and Political Weekly, I(1): 29-31, 2015.

Op-eds

1. ‘What is altruistic surrogacy?’, The Hindu, 24.12.2018

2. ‘C-sections vs choice to birth safely’, Deccan Herald, 2.03.2017

3. ‘Ban in the garb of regulation’, Deccan Herald, 04.09.2016

4. ‘Abortion row’, Daily O, 9.04.2015 (https://www.dailyo.in/politics/savita-halappanavar-purvi-patel-reproductive-rights-abortion-chhattisgarh-sterilisation/story/1/3047.html)

5. ‘Freezing eggs: How mothers get the raw deal at work’, Daily O, 27.10,2014 (https://www.dailyo.in/lifestyle/no-moral-in-frozen-egg-story/story/1/473.html)