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Book SynopsisProbes 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.
Trade Review"[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
Table of ContentsList 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
