Sociological Debates On Gestational Surrogacy

Author : Daniela Bandelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030803023
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy written by Daniela Bandelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core narratives of supporters and opponents of surrogacy, in order to understand this reproductive practice in light of some of the essential elements of contemporary societies, such as the “child at any cost” culture, individualism, technology and female emancipation. This book appeals to scholars, policy makers and all those who want to understand the controversial debate on this unprecedented method of family formation and life production.

Author : France Winddance Twine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113616460X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing the Womb written by France Winddance Twine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. The way that children enter families has changed radically among upper middle class families. In the 1980s infertility increasing became defined as a medical problem that could be solved with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) rather than through adoption. Asexual or ‘assisted conception’ involving medical technologies such as in vitro fertilization and embryo transfers began to replace sexual reproduction for infertile couples. Third parties, referred to as surrogates are hired to assist individuals and/or couples who wish to conceive and child with whom they share a genetic tie. This has resulted in a ‘surrogate baby boom.’ Outsourcing the Womb provides a critical introduction to the global surrogacy market. A comparative analysis of the assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy industry in Egypt, Israel, India and the United States disentangles the intersecting roles of race, religion, class inequality, religious law, and global capitalism. Gestational surrogacy challenges the idea of ‘natural’ reproduction and of the meaning of parenthood. What role should the state play in providing individuals and families with access to reproductive technologies? This book concludes with a discussion of ‘reproductive justice’. The goal of this new, unique series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses.

Author : Zsuzsa Berend
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785332759
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Online World of Surrogacy written by Zsuzsa Berend and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Surrogates’ views emerge from the stories, debates, and discussions that unfold online. The Online World of Surrogacy documents these collective meaning-making practices and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications. In doing so, the book works through themes of interest across the social sciences, including definitions of parenthood, the symbolic role of money, reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of relationships.

Author : Consuelo Corradi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gestational Surrogacy written by Consuelo Corradi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, surrogacy has developed as a fast-growing, transnational practice of medically assisted reproduction. Globalization and as trans-national accessibility of medical services, facilitated the spread of surrogacy across country boundaries. Feminists have mobilized against surrogacy, claiming that this reproductive technology is the ultimate form of women commodification and slavery (Klein 2017). Other feminist groups adopt a liberal approach or demand better regulations to protect of all the subjects involved. This special issue looks at this reproductive technology from the vantage point of different sociological fields: medical sociology, sociological theory, sociology of the body and the family. Articles investigate the dominant arguments adopted to support or ban surrogacy, established practices of medical control, competing definitions available in international legal frameworks, connections between surrogacy and the dismissal of the body in post-humanism, and the changing social imaginary around the new family structures. Within a vibrant international scholarship predominantly focused on parents' and surrogates' narratives, there is need for reflections on the social implications of surrogacy on the future generation.

Author : Daniela Danna
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 383826780X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contract Children written by Daniela Danna and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogate motherhood is expanding all over the world. Debates rage over how public policy should consider the signing away of the parental rights of birth mothers in favor of a 'commissioning' couple or an individual. In this book, Daniela Danna describes the situation in English-speaking countries and worldwide, from California to Greece, presenting the legal alternatives regulating (or not) these peculiar exchanges. Should surrogacy remain a private agreement? Should it be treated as an enforceable contract? Are surrogate mothers workers? What happens inside the countries that have chosen different ways of handling this new and controversial matter? And, the most important question of all: How can we live in this era of new techno-medical possibilities and try to stay human? Can we resist commodification in the field of human relations concerning procreation? Contract Children discusses the different ways available to obtain a child through surrogate motherhood. It is fundamental reading for anyone wanting to be involved in the surrogacy process. It gives prospective surrogate mothers and infertile couples the background information necessary for their own informed decision. It is also an essential instrument for policy makers and activists in the field of women's rights, social justice, and children's rights. The question of how to publicly deal with surrogate motherhood touches upon our social vision of motherhood, ultimately marking the position of women in contemporary society.

Author : Rachel Cook
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1841132551
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surrogate Motherhood written by Rachel Cook and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary book explores legal, ethical, social, psychological and practical aspects of surrogate motherhood in Britain and abroad.

Author : Elly Teman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945859
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birthing a Mother written by Elly Teman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Susan Markens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520252035
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction written by Susan Markens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an analysis of legislative responses to surrogacy in New York and California, the author explores how discourses about gender, family, race, genetics, rights, and choice have shaped policies aimed at this issue. She examines the views of legislators, women's organizations, religious groups, the media, and others.

Author : Anca Gheaus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190072172
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Surrogacy written by Anca Gheaus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a for-and-against look at surrogacy, this book focuses on questions which bear on its justifiability: Is providing gestational services a permissible way of employing a woman's body? Indeed, is it a legitimate form of work? Are the children born out of surrogacy in any way wronged by surrogacy agreements?

Author : E. Scott Sills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131672784X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Gestational Surrogacy written by E. Scott Sills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing demand for gestational surrogacy in current reproductive medicine practice. Infertile couples often engage overseas surrogates, which increases the risk for legal and ethical complications. This book provides clinical guidance on the provision of gestational surrogacy on a worldwide basis, with brief summaries of the legal position within countries where it is offered. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of surrogacy for clinicians, counsellors, attorneys, legislators and anyone interested in reproductive health policy by filling an immediate niche as a resource for those interested in third-party reproductive treatments.