{"product_id":"birthing-a-mother-9780520259645","title":"Birthing a Mother","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProbes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 \u0026amp; 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402837958999,"sku":"9780520259645","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520259645.jpg?v=1730481653","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/birthing-a-mother-9780520259645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}