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Author Markens, Susan, 1967-

Title Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction / Susan Markens
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages)
Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: unfamiliar families? -- The new problem of surrogate motherhood: legislative responses -- "Choice" and the "best interests of children": claiming the problem of surrogate motherhood -- "Moral conundrums and menacing ambiguities": framing the problem of surrogate motherhood -- Competing frames of surrogacy: comparing newspapers' coverage of "horror stories" -- Unity, divisions, and strange bedfellows: divergent legislative responses to surrogate motherhood -- A brave new world? Reproductive politics from the past to the present -- Appendix A: A note on methods and data -- Appendix B: A multistate comparison of the impact of sponsor's gender and abortion position on the success of surrogacy bills -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Susan Markens takes on one of the hottest issues on the fertility front - surrogate motherhood - in a book that illuminates the culture wars that have erupted over new reproductive technologies in the United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index
Notes English
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Subject Surrogate motherhood.
Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Motherhood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Surrogate motherhood
Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects
Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696882
ISBN 9780520940970
0520940970
9786611385644
6611385649
1281385646
9781281385642