Stolen motherhood : surrogacy and made-to-order children /
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Author / Creator: | Koninck, Maria de |
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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 |
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