Stolen motherhood : surrogacy and made-to-order children /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Koninck, Maria de
Uniform title:Maternité dérobée. Anglais
Imprint:Montréal : Baraka Books, [2020]
©2019
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Subject:Surrogate mothers.
Surrogate motherhood.
Surrogate motherhood
Surrogate mothers
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12536129
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781771862332
1771862335
1771862246
9781771862240
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2020).
Other form:Print version: 1771862246 9781771862240
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Legality in Quebec and Canada
  • Several ways to name the same practice
  • Gestational carriers
  • Surrogacy
  • Use of surrogate mothers
  • Third-party reproduction
  • A few definitions: procreation, kinship, descent
  • Chapter 1. Surrogacy's Emergence, Development, and International Expansion
  • Changes that prompted the development of reproductive practices
  • Human rights, the individual, and freedom
  • The status of women
  • The evolution of the family
  • The status of children
  • Medicine and reproductive health
  • Evolving knowledge and discourse
  • Neoliberalism and globalization
  • Today's reality
  • Surrogacy and the law
  • Exploitation of needy women from poor countries and negative fallouts
  • India
  • Chapter 2. Women's Issues
  • Experiencing motherhood
  • Could we cut out the mother completely?
  • Reproduction and social bonds
  • The technification of childbirth and...of the rest
  • A case for autonomy
  • Dignity of the mother and child
  • A job like any other?
  • The surrogates' side
  • To make a gift
  • Experiencing pregnancy
  • Earning income
  • What about consent?
  • Breastfeeding
  • Chapter 3. The Child at the Heart of Surrogacy
  • Assisted reproduction: stability or separation?
  • Understanding our origins
  • The relational aspect
  • Planning the separation
  • The child's origins
  • The surrogate mother's anonymity
  • Given-or abandoned?
  • Children's rights
  • When a child does not meet expectations
  • Do not do unto others what you do not want done unto you
  • Chapter 4. Wanting a Child versus Human Dignity
  • The children of biomedicine
  • The medicalization process
  • Individualism: satisfying one's own desire
  • Social infertility
  • Wanting children: a social construct
  • Right to a child
  • What about the future?
  • Chapter 5. The Pieces of the Puzzle
  • The health of mother and child
  • Lessons from anthropology
  • The illusion of regulation
  • Surrogacy's social illegitimacy
  • The child's best interests
  • Inevitable fallouts
  • Conclusion
  • The nature of the demand
  • Abolishing surrogacy internationally
  • What now?
  • Final thoughts
  • Notes
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Surrogacy's Emergence, Development, and International Expansion
  • Chapter 2. Women's Issues
  • Chapter 3. The Child at the Heart of Surrogacy
  • Chapter 4. Wanting a Child versus Human Dignity
  • Chapter 5. The Pieces of the Puzzle
  • References
  • Also from Baraka Books