Reading this book is like climbing to the top of a mountain and surveying the landscape beneath. It clearly outlines the difficult and interconnected debates surrounding surrogacy.
Stefania Doglioli, President of the Centro Studi sul Pensiero Femminile and of the Associazione XXD Intelligent, compelling and highly readable, Contract Children challenges us to rethink the meanings of motherhood, care, ... Read moreand markets before making judgments about the ethics of surrogacy. This is a powerful and original contribution to debates on surrogate motherhood.
Julia O'Connell Davidson, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham Daniela Danna has given us a truly global and rich analysis of what is called 'surrogacy', and what she more accurately calls 'contract children'. She traces the practice of selling 'gestational services' or 'renting wombs' from its creation in the United States in the 1970's to its growth as a global industry, showing us the varied legal and social meanings around the world of turning pregnancy into paid labor - and often very poorly paid labor indeed. What would it mean to value, as she argues we should value, pregnancy and motherhood as the basic social tie, the relationship within which all human life begins?
Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology at CUNY Show Less