Birthing a mother the surrogate body and the pregnant self /

Teman, Elly.

Birthing a mother the surrogate body and the pregnant self / Elly Teman. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Surrogate selves and embodied others -- The body map -- Operationalizing the body map -- Intended mothers and maternal intentions -- The shifting body -- Rites of classification -- The surrogate's gift -- The surrogate's mission -- The hero's quest.

This is an ethnography which probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavour.



9780520945852

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Surrogate mothers--Israel.
Mothers--Israel.
Pregnancy--Israel.
Judaism.


Electronic Books.

HQ759 / .B578 2010