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Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Elly Teman
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Description for Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Paperback. Probes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526. The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self. 384 pages, illustrations. Probes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight: 526.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520259645
SKU
V9780520259645
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About Elly Teman
Elly Teman is a Research Fellow at the Penn Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
"[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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more