Surrogate selves and embodied others -- The body map -- Operationalizing the body map -- Intended mothers and maternal intentions -- The shifting body -- Rites of classification -- The surrogate's gift -- The surrogate's mission -- The hero's quest.
Summary
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.
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