Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self - Softcover

Teman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520259645 ISBN 13: 9780520259645

Verlag: University of California Press, 2002

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Book by Teman Elly

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"[A] thoughtful ethnography, possessing fluid yet technical writing that reads like a page-turning novel." Practical Matters "Teman does a superb job ... and in places her book reads like a novel." -- Michele Pridmore-Brown Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "A great anthropological case study." -- Deborah Moon Jewish Review Of Books "Academic and well-researched, moving and sensitive." -- Judy Siegel-Itzkovich The Jerusalem Post "Teman offers us fascinating data, on a disturbing situation, in a deliberately uncritical way." -- Barbara Katz Rothman Sociology Of Health & Illness "Clear, engaging writing ... [Teman] presents the subject in a narrative form that keeps the reader excited to be turning pages." -- Robbie Davis-Floyd Birth: Issues In Perinatal Care

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"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.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0520259645
• ISBN 13: 9780520259645
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 382