Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self by Elly Teman (Engli

Description: Birthing a Mother by Elly Teman Probes 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, Teman traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. Temans groundbreaking analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother. Flap " Birthing a Mother is brilliant and beautifully written. It showcases Temans great skills as an ethnographer and her sophisticated analytic mind. She portrays all her subjects with empathy and compassion, whether surrogates, intended parents, or professionals otherwise involved in the reproductive procedures she documents."--Charis Thompson, author of Making Parents "Teman deftly portrays surrogacy as a joint project through which one woman assists another, through sacrifice and instruction, to become also a mother."--Heather Paxson, author of Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece Author Biography Elly Teman is a Research Fellow at the Penn Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania. Table of Contents List 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 Surrogates Gift Part Four: Redefining 8. The Surrogates Mission 9. The Heros Quest Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index 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 Review Quote "Teman offers us fascinating data, on a disturbing situation, in a deliberately uncritical way." Details ISBN0520259645 Author Elly Teman Year 2010 ISBN-10 0520259645 ISBN-13 9780520259645 Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Subtitle The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.8743 Short Title BIRTHING A MOTHER Language English Media Book Pages 384 Publisher University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Illustrations 11 b-w photographs, 1 line illustration UK Release Date 2010-03-04 Publication Date 2010-03-04 NZ Release Date 2010-03-04 US Release Date 2010-03-04 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2010-03-03 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138319642;

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