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At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, this
volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on
reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology,
illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering
insights to inform sociology and health policy. Reproduction,
Health, and Medicine elucidates the tensions and contradictions
between the normal physiologic processes of pregnancy and birth and
the sociocultural beliefs, values, and arrangements that shape how
we experience these biological phenomena. Investigating a range of
reproductive events and experiences, including pregnancy, birth,
abortion and fertility planning, the volume advances our
understanding of how lay people and professionals make cultural
meaning out of these processes in diverse settings. The chapters
highlight how studies of reproduction, health, and medicine
interface with core sociological concepts such as stratification,
inequality, intersectionality, family and kinship, risk, and social
control, and how experiences of reproduction are shaped by gender,
race, class, sexuality and citizenship, as well as culture, health
care systems, and health politics.
"Susan Markens has written an original, insightful book about
reproductive politics in the United States, sure to be of wide
intellectual and public interest. Focusing on the history of
statewide surrogacy regulation and the corresponding 'culture wars'
spawned by fertility issues, she offers a fresh look at a vexing
and timely social issue. "Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of
Reproduction" is feminist political sociology at its
finest."--Monica J. Casper, author of "The Making of the Unborn
Patient"
"Policy and law on surrogacy and related issues remain in flux, as
do society's views as to the directions in which we should move.
Markens' analysis is rich, original, and sound, and she writes with
clarity and conviction. Her comparative approach offers a more
penetrating analysis than would a study of a single setting.
"Surrogate Motherhood" is certain to make an impact: the work is
timely, convincing, and intellectually sound."--Carole Browner,
UCLA School of Medicine, Center for Culture and Health
"Susan Markens has written a thorough and fascinating account of
the dilemmas and policy debates brought forward by surrogate
parenting. This book is a splendid addition to the growing field of
the sociology of reproduction."--Carole Joffe, author of "Doctors
of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After
Roe v. Wade"
"Surrogate motherhood burst into the public eye in 1986 with the
spectacular custody trial over 'Baby M.' Susan Markens deftly and
judiciously moves beyond the feminist polemics, to brilliantly
clarify the ostensibly opposed legal responses to this "Brave New
World" of reproductive 'choice.' Whether surrogacy is banned as
baby-selling orregulated as a service to the infertile, neither
policy questions the myth that in the U.S. we have a private right
to procreate. "Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of
Reproduction "stands with the path-breaking work of Kristin Luker,
Dorothy Roberts, and Rickie Solinger, illuminating the public
character of reproductive politics, privilege, and motherhood
itself."--Linda M. Blum, author of "At the Breast: Ideologies of
Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Contemporary United States"
""Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction" is the
definitive account of how and why surrogacy emerged as a political
issue in the late 20th century and the alarming lag in US social
policy in the face of rapidly advancing technologies that challenge
our basic understandings of motherhood and kinship. Markens'
provocative new book provides an intriguing solution to a puzzle:
Why did a political consensus emerge in New York to ban surrogacy
as 'baby selling' while California's response was to permit
surrogacy, framed as a hardship of childlessness? More
intriguingly, Markens shows how the public debates in both contexts
relied on similar feminist arguments of 'choice' and 'the best
interests of the child.' With her evenhanded and nuanced account,
Markens delivers an exemplary and nuanced application of the
comparative case method, primary textual analysis, print media and
strategic interviews that gives voice, intrigue, and verve to her
story. The book will appeal widely to students of reproductive
politics and new genetic and reproductive technologies as they
influence our conceptions of health, motherhood and paternity
rights, as well as ideologies of gender and
kinship."--SherriGrasmuck, author of "Protecting Home: Class, Race
and Masculinity"
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