Birthing a mother : the surrogate body and the pregnant self / / Elly Teman

• Autore: Teman Elly
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/3
• Soggetto topico: Surrogate mothers - Israel; Mothers - Israel; Pregnancy - Israel; Judaism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Yael -- Introduction -- Part one. Dividing -- Part Two. Connecting -- Part Three. Separating -- Part Four. Redefining -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Surrogate body and the pregnant self
• Titolo autorizzato: Birthing a mother
• ISBN: 9786612556159; 9781282556157; 1282556150; 9780520945852; 0520945859
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969346203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II