Birthing a Mother
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.
361 pages, 5 editions
English edition · First published 2010 by University of California Press · ISBN 9780520259638
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Editions
5 editions
English
- Birthing a mother · University of California Press · 2010 · ISBN 9780520259638 This page
- Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self · University of California Press · 2010 · ISBN 9780520945852
- Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self · University of California Press · 2010 · ISBN 9786612556159
- Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self · University of California Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781282556157
- Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self · University of California Press · 2010 · ISBN 9780520259645
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