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This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements,
responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a
radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice
distinguishes between two models of surrogacy - the altruistic
(unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which
present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book
proposes a novel arrangement for surrogate motherhood - the
professional model. Inspired by professions, such as nursing,
teaching, and social work, the professional model acknowledges the
caring motives that surrogate mothers have while at the same time
compensating them for their work. Walker and Van Zyl adopt an
evidence-based approach to explain that the professional model
enables trust between intended parents and surrogates, provides
professional support at every stage of the relationship, affords
legal protections against exploitation and commodification, and
recognizes the rights and interests of all parties, including the
intended baby. The model applies to both transnational and domestic
surrogacy and will be of great interest to policy makers, social
researchers, bioethicists, legal scholars, fertility professionals,
clinicians, and graduate students in psychology, philosophy,
medicine and ethics.
In The Trouble with Sauling Around, Madeline Walker probes the
complex and troubled relationship between ethnicity, society, and
religious conversion in late twentieth-century African American and
Mexican American autobiography. Religious conversion the turning
away from an old, sinful life toward a new life of salvation
manifests as an intensely personal experience, yet it calls into
play a wide variety of social, cultural, economic, racial,
political, and psychological forces. Thus, constant change and the
negotiation of resistance to and assimilation within the dominant
culture have been seminal topics for ethnic Americans, just as the
conversion narrative is often a central genre in ethnic writing,
particularly autobiographical writing. Examining autobiographical
texts by Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta
Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the
Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones),
and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and
Brown), Walker questions the often rosy views and simplistic binary
conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading of these texts
takes into account the conflict and serial changes the authors
experience in a society that marginalises them, the manner in which
religious conversion offers ethnic Americans "salvation" through
cultural assimilation or cultural nationalism, and what conversion,
anticonversion, and deconversion narratives tell us about the
problematic effects of religion that often go unremarked because of
a code of "special respect" and political correctness. Walker
asserts that critics have been too willing to praise religion in
America as salutary or beyond the ken of criticism because
religious belief is seen as belonging to an untouchable arena of
cultural identity. The Trouble with Sauling Around goes beyond
traditional literary criticism to pay close attention to the social
phenomena that underlie religious conversion narratives and
considers the potentially negative effects of religious conversion,
something that has been likewise neglected by scholars.
"Zombies in the Academy" taps into the current popular fascination
with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields,
including cultural and communication studies, sociology, film
studies, and education, to give a critical account of the
political, cultural, and pedagogical state of the university
through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume
argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy--an
environment emphasizing publication, narrow research, and the
vulnerability of the tenure system-- is creating a crisis in higher
education best understood through the language of zombie
culture--the undead, contagion, and plague, among others. "Zombies
in the Academy "presents essays from a variety of scholars and
creative writers who present an engaging and entertaining appeal
for serious recognition of the conditions of contemporary
humanities teaching, culture, and labor practices.
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