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Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women''s bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers'' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people''s existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy mark

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I
1. The Biopolitics of Motherhood
2. Secret Conceptions
Part II
3. Choreographing Surrogacy
4. Doing It Business-Style
5. Technologies of Alignment
Part III
6. Laboring with Happiness
7. Ambivalences of Freedom
Conclusion
Afterward

Intimate Strangers

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501771316
      978-1501771316
      ISBN-10 1501771310
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      Women’s health

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women''s bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers'' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people''s existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy mark

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Part I
      1. The Biopolitics of Motherhood
      2. Secret Conceptions
      Part II
      3. Choreographing Surrogacy
      4. Doing It Business-Style
      5. Technologies of Alignment
      Part III
      6. Laboring with Happiness
      7. Ambivalences of Freedom
      Conclusion
      Afterward

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