Birthing a Mother - The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	February 2010
Authors:	Elly Teman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25964-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-25964-5
Barcode:	9780520259645

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