Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

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 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. Temanâ€™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.

Country	USA
Author	Elly Teman
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780520259645
Edition	0
ISBN	0520259645
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	2010-03-04
Publisher	University of California Press
Studio	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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