Gestational Labor and the Politics of Privilege: Racialized Motherhood in Contemporary Drama

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This article examines the representation of transnational surrogacy in Vivienne Franzmann's play Bodies (2017), contextualizing it within the framework of intersectional feminist critique. Drawing on theoretical contributions from Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991), Amrita Pande (2010), and others, the analysis explores how the play constructs motherhood and the female body as contested spaces shaped by global inequalities of race, gender, class, and nationality. The work argues that Bodies (2017) operates as an intersectional counter-narrative that challenges the legitimacy of legalized reproductive exploitation and exposes the moral contradictions embedded in the commodification of motherhood.