Date and time: Tuesday, July 22 2025, 6 - 9pm IST

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. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Shrayana Bhattacharya {Economist, Social Protection and Labour Unit, World Bank South Asia} and Sanjay Srivastava {Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS University of London}.

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