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Birthing a Mother : The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self by Teman, Elly is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__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. Teman’s 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.

Who reads Birthing a Mother : The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self?

Author

Teman, Elly

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520945852

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Judaism, Medical