The literature review examines contemporary forms of surrogacy in the context of comparative ethnography. In contrast to the ideological reading of these practices in terms of morality, religion, politics, and personal motivation, which dominates in the social sciences and mass media, as well as their evaluative interpretation as an absolute evil or apotheosis of humanism, the authors of the articles included in the review focus on specific socio-structural (economic, racial, gender, class) aspects of surrogacy in the context of the global transnational market of reproductive services and in the context of individual regions (the global North and the global South).
comparative ethnography; surrogacy; «surrogate business»; assisted reproductive technology; artificial insemination; gestational carrier; genetic parentage; national identity; citizenship; social inequality; exploitation; global North and global South.