Laws of Social Reproduction

Project Information

LawsOfSocRep

Grant agreement ID: 772946

DOI

10.3030/772946

Project closed

EC signature date 3 May 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 542,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 542,00

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KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Feminist Legal Studies, Issue 29/1, 2021, Page(s) 43-65, ISSN 0966-3622
Publisher: Deborah Charles Publications for the Kent Law School
DOI: 10.1007/s10691-020-09447-x

“No single hand can produce claps”: A Feminist Evaluation of Customer’s Liability for Availing Sexual Services under Indian Law

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Gujarat National Law University Socio-Legal Review, 2021, ISSN 2582-2446
Publisher: Centre for Law and Society, Gujarat National Law University

Laws of Social Reproduction

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 145-164, ISSN 1550-3585
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-121922-051047

An Unfettered Freefall: Taking Stock of the Gendered Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran V Geetha
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly, Issue Vol 56, Issue No 17, 2021, ISSN 0012-9976
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust

Toward a Model of Universal Care, One Manifesto at a Time

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 854-864, ISSN 1072-4745
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxab040

Reproductive resistance, law, and informality: a critique of the Indian Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021

Author(s): Madhusree Jana, Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Journal of Gender Studies, 2025, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0958-9236
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2025.2490844

Theorizing the Continuities Between Marriage and Sex Work in the Experience of Female Sex Workers in Pune, Maharashtra

Author(s): Shakthi Nataraj, Sutapa Majumdar
Published in: Social Sciences, Issue 10/2, 2021, Page(s) 52, ISSN 2076-0760
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/socsci10020052

Divine labours, devalued work: the continuing saga of India’s surrogacy regulation

Author(s): Sneha Banerjee, Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Indian Law Review, Issue 5/1, 2021, Page(s) 85-105, ISSN 2473-0580
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/24730580.2020.1843317

When hypercriminalization falls afoul of the constitution: the need to rethink the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran, Shardha Rajam
Published in: Indian Law Review, Issue 7, 2023, Page(s) 299-321, ISSN 2473-0580
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/24730580.2023.2235937

Legal (Dis)Orders

Author(s): Madhusree Jana, Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Amicus Curiae, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 300-323, ISSN 2048-481X
Publisher: School of Advanced Study
DOI: 10.14296/ac.v6i2.5752

Other (18)

Surrogacy Regulation is Stuck Between Market, Family and State

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: The Wire, 2018
Publisher: The Wire

Paid Domestic Work as ‘Decent Work’: Global Aspirations and Indian Realities

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran & The Laws of Social Reproduction Project team
Published in: Law of Social Reproduction Website, 2025
Publisher: Self published

Case for a standalone law to deal with matrimonial property

Author(s): Arvind Kurian Abraham
Published in: The Leaflet, 2022
Publisher: The Leaflet

For gender equity, India needs a care manifesto

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Hindustan Times, 2021
Publisher: Hindustan Times

Care Work and the Global South: Shifting the Frame on Labour Law’s Founding Narrative

Author(s): Adelle Blackett
Published in: Law of Social Reproduction Website, 2025
Publisher: Self published

Visibility and Value at Work: The Legal Organisation of Productive and Reproductive Work

Author(s): Kerry Rittich
Published in: Laws of Social Reproduction website, 2023
Publisher: Laws of Social Reproduction website

A Right to Care, A Right to Welfare: A Study of the Kalaignar Mahalir Urimai Thittam

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran, Gale Andrew, Jannet Farida Jacob, Narbadeshwar Mishra, Priya S, Rebecca Hannah
Published in: Laws of Social Reproduction Website, 2025
Publisher: Laws of Social Reproduction Website

SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND FINANCIAL EXTRACTIVISM

Author(s): Veronica Gago
Published in: Laws of Social Reproduction Website, 2022
Publisher: Laws of Social Reproduction Website

Should Women be paid for household work

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: TOI, 2022
Publisher: TOI

Lockdown in Poverty: Orphaned By Economy, Women Domestic Workers Struggle To Make Ends Meet

Author(s): Sophy K Joseph
Published in: Outlook India, 2024
Publisher: Outlook India

Schemes that offer zilch relief to workers

Author(s): Aditi Chanchani Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Deccan Herald, 2021
Publisher: Deccan Herald

Shutting down India’s red-light districts won’t contain coronavirus

Author(s): Shakthi Nataraj
Published in: Open Democracy, 2020
Publisher: Open Democracy

Violating Freedoms and Criminalising Labour in Proposed Law on Trafficking

Author(s): Shardha Rajam Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: 2021
Publisher: The India Forum

Tracing the journey, and flaws, of the surrogacy bill

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran and Sneha Banerjee
Published in: Hindustan Times, 2020
Publisher: Hindustan Times

India’s new trafficking bill fails to protect survivors financially

Author(s): Shardha Rajam
Published in: Open Democracy, 2021
Publisher: Open Democracy

Valuing Care, Recognising Rights, Reimagining Welfare

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Laws of Social Reproduction website, 2025
Publisher: Laws of Social Reproduction website

From Reproducing Labour Power to Reproducing our Struggle: A Strategy for a Revolutionary Feminism

Author(s): Silvia Federici
Published in: Laws of Social Reproduction website, 2025
Publisher: Laws of Social Reproduction website

Dancing for Respectability: A Study of Karagattam and Adal Padal Dancers in Rural Tamil Nadu

Author(s): Shakthi Nataraj, Sutapa Majumdar, and Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Laws of Social Reproduction Report, 2025
Publisher: Laws of Social Reproduction Report

Non-peer reviewed articles (7)

Regulating Reproductive Technologies

Author(s): Sneha Banerjee Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly, 2021, ISSN 0012-9976
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust

Justice within the new factory gates: how to hold RWAs responsible for workers’ welfare

Author(s): Shardha Rajam, Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: International Journal of Law in Context, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 176-196, ISSN 1744-5523
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1744552324000429

Voices from Health Care Providers: Assessing the Impact of the Indian Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 on the Practice of IVF in India

Author(s): Jaydeep Tank, Prabha Kotiswaran, Parikshit Tank, Dev Tank, Jash Tank
Published in: The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India, Issue 73, 2023, Page(s) 301-308, ISSN 0971-9202
Publisher: Federation of Obstetric & Gynaecological Societies of India
DOI: 10.1007/s13224-023-01815-2

Economic Worth of Homemakers

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly, Issue Vol 56, Issue 7, 2021, ISSN 0012-9976
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust

An Unfettered Freefall Taking Stock of the Gendered Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Intorduction to a Review of Women's Studies

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran, V Geetha
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly, Issue Vol 56, Issue No 17, 2021, ISSN 0012-9976
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust

Revaluing Unpaid Work through Unconditional Cash Transfers: The Case of the Orunodoi Scheme in Assam

Author(s): Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly, Issue Vol. 57, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun, 2022, 2022, ISSN 0012-9976
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust

Precarity and the Effect of Sudden Economic Shock on the Intimate Labour Force in India, Solidarity and Care, Sociological Review

Author(s): Sutapa Majumdar
Published in: The Sociological Review, 2020, ISSN 2754-1371
Publisher: The Sociological Review

Monographic books (2)

Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy

Author(s): Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: The Law and Governance of India’s Surrogacy Markets (Chapter Title), 2019, Page(s) 469-498, ISBN 9781780688633
Publisher: Insentia
DOI: 10.1017/9781780688633

Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Author(s): PI Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran
Published in: Law’s Paradoxes: Governing Surrogacy in India (Chapter Title), 2018, Page(s) 127-151, ISBN 978-3-319-78670-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78670-4