Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Markens, Susan, 1967-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Surrogate motherhood. Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States. Surrogate motherhood. Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects. Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11172308

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ISBN:	9780520940970 0520940970 0520252039 9780520252035 0520252047 9780520252042 9786611385644 6611385649 1281385646 9781281385642
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Susan Markens takes on one of the hottest issues on the fertility front - surrogate motherhood - in a book that illuminates the culture wars that have erupted over new reproductive technologies in the United States.
Other form:	Print version: Markens, Susan, 1967- Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 0520252039 9780520252035
Standard no.:	10.1525/9780520940970

Table of 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.

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