Outsourcing the Womb Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market

Name: Outsourcing the Womb Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market
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ISBN: 9780415892025

ISBN-10: 0415892023

ISBN-13: 9780415892025

Edition: 2011

Authors: France Winddance Twine

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A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. The way that children enter families has changed radically among upper middle class families. In the 1980s infertility increasing became defined as a medical problem that could be solved with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) rather than through adoption. Asexual or 'assisted conception' involving medical technologies such as in vitro fertilization and embryo transfers began to replace sexual reproduction for infertile couples. Third parties, referred to as surrogates are hired to assist individuals and/or couples who wish to conceive and child with whom they share a genetic tie. This has resulted in a 'surrogate…

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List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 3/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 78
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Series Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Industrial Womb



Racism, Capitalism, and Reproductive Labor



Becoming a Gestational Surrogate



Google Babies: Class, Colorism, and Consumer Culture



Religious Law and Regulatory Regimes: Egypt and Israel



India: A View from the Global South



Reproductive Justice and Reproductive Liberty


Bibliography


Glossary/Index