Birthing a Mother The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

Name: Birthing a Mother The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
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ISBN: 9780520259645

ISBN-10: 0520259645

ISBN-13: 9780520259645

Edition: 2010

Authors: Elly Teman

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Birthing a Motheris the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish-Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, Teman traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. Teman's groundbreaking analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Yael


Introduction



Dividing



Surrogate Selves and Embodied Others



The Body Map



Operationalizing the Body Map



Connecting



Intended Mothers and Maternal Intentions



The Shifting Body



Separating



Rites of Classification



The Surrogate's Gift



Redefining



The Surrogate's Mission



The Hero's Quest


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index