Birthing a Mother The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

Birthing a Mother is 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...

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Main Author: Teman, Elly
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press 2010
Edition:1
Subjects:
academic nonfiction
Anthropology
Birth
Body
childbirth
cross cultural perspectives
delivery
ethnographers
ethnography
family
family sociology
fetus
gender studies
gestation
global context
health care
humanity
Israel
jewish israeli women
Judaism
life changes
maternal claims
MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery
Motherhood
Mothers
Mothers - Israel
new mothers
nonfiction reference
parenthood
Pregnancy
Pregnancy > Israel
psychology of surrogacy
Self
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
sociology
surrogacy
Surrogate mother
Surrogate motherhood
Surrogate mothers
Surrogate mothers > Israel
surrogates
thought provoking
women
womens relationships
Israel
academic nonfiction
sociology
childbirth
motherhood
womens relationships
surrogates
jewish israeli women
psychology of surrogacy
thought provoking
global context
nonfiction reference
gestation
ethnography
health care
surrogacy
humanity
delivery
anthropology
ethnographers
gender studies
pregnancy
new mothers
family sociology
life changes
parenthood
cross cultural perspectives
surrogate motherhood
family
fetus
women
maternal claims
ISBN:0520259637, 9780520259638, 0520259645, 9780520259645, 0520945859, 9780520945852
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Summary:Birthing a Mother is 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 carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-351) and index
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ISBN:0520259637
9780520259638
0520259645
9780520259645
0520945859
9780520945852
DOI:10.1525/9780520945852