Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self / Edition 1

Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self / Edition 1

by Elly Teman
ISBN-10:
0520259637
ISBN-13:
9780520259638
Pub. Date:
03/04/2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520259637
ISBN-13:
9780520259638
Pub. Date:
03/04/2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self / Edition 1

Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self / Edition 1

by Elly Teman
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520259638
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 03/04/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Elly Teman is a Research Fellow at the Penn Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Yael
Introduction

Part One: Dividing
1. Surrogate Selves and Embodied Others
2. The Body Map
3. Operationalizing the Body Map

Part Two: Connecting
4. Intended Mothers and Maternal Intentions
5. The Shifting Body

Part Three: Separating
6. Rites of Classification
7. The Surrogate's Gift

Part Four: Redefining
8. The Surrogate's Mission
9. The Hero's Quest

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"[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."—Times Literary Supplement (Tls)

"A great anthropological case study."—Jewish Review of Books

"Academic and well-researched, moving and sensitive."—The Jerusalem Post

"Clear, engaging writing . . . [Teman] presents the subject in a narrative form that keeps the reader excited to be turning pages."—Birth: Issues
In Perinatal Care

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