Abstract
It is my contention that urgent questions about the politics of the biological body have been displaced in discussions of hybridity – a term that seems to account for the phenomenon of global mixture but routinely defers consideration of its material and physiological dimensions. In this essay I reinsert the biological body into discussions of hybridity in order to explore the growing phenomenon of international commercial surrogacy. The third world woman's rented womb emerges in this reading as an overlooked, unclaimed site of hybridity in the global division of labour, with intriguing precedents in the colonial experience, and opportunities for reviewing the incarnation of global hybridity in live bodies in the present.
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