Birthing a Mother

The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

Bibliographic Data

ID23400736
AuthorsE Teman (0000-0001-8353-9965, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages384
Publication date2010-03-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byBirthing a Mother: The surrogate body and the pregnant self, Deborah Finding, 2011
VenueBirthing a mother (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520259638.001.0001
OpenAlexW4235005691
Open LibraryOL23230045M
ISBN9780520259638
LanguageEN
Citations received128

This is an ethnography which probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavour. "Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, Teman traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. Teman's groundbreaking analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother."--Publisher description.

Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Judaism · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Israel · Mothers · Pregnancy · Surrogate mothers · Women

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