Research Catalog

Title

Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction / Susan Markens.

Author

Markens, Susan, 1967-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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Description

xiii, 272 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Surrogate motherhood
• Surrogate mothers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Surrogate motherhood > Social aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-6651

ISBN

• 0520252039 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520252035 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520252047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780520252042 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006029089

OCLC

71288729

Author

Markens, Susan, 1967-

Title

Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction / Susan Markens.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-6651