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Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture / edited by Linda L. Layne.

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Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture / edited by Linda L. Layne.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
Layne, Linda L.
Description
xix, 222 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Fetal death > United States
  • Foster parents > United States
  • Infants > United States > Death
  • Motherhood > United States
  • Open adoption > United States
  • Parents of children with disabilities > United States
  • Surrogate motherhood > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Freely given : open adoption and the rhetoric of the gift / Judith S. Modell -- The gift of life : surrogate motherhood, gamete donation, and constructions of altruism / Heléna Ragoné -- Gifts and burdens : the social and familial context of foster mothering / Danielle F. Wozniak -- Does God give special kids to special parents? : personhood and the child with disabilities as gift and as giver / Gail Landsman -- "True gifts from God" : motherhood, sacrifice, and enrichment in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne.
ISBN
  • 0814751555 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0814751547 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99006661^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library