Date and time: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:00 - Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:00 IST

Venue: India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg New Delhi, DL 110003 India

The Laws of Social Reproduction project studies women’s reproductive labour across the marriage-market continuum, including, sex work, erotic dancing, surrogacy and egg donation, paid domestic work and unpaid domestic/care work. Our project demonstrates the law’s role in producing and entrenching the invisibility of women’s reproductive labour in these sectors, while also offering a comparison of the law’s highly differential regulation of these apparently disparate forms of female reproductive labour.

Over three days in July, we will present the findings of our interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research on the laws of social reproduction. We will kick off the conference with the screening of the documentary film ‘Working Girls’, based on our research and directed by Paromita Vohra. We will follow this with a two-day conference at the India International Centre presenting our research across the five fieldwork sectors while reflecting on the dynamic continuum of women’s reproductive labour and the methodologies, theories, and strategies that bridge silos across the sectors and help advocate for the rights of reproductive labourers in India. Each day, researchers from the project will present our research findings, followed by comments from expert discussants and a Q&A session with the audience.