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Author Teman, Elly.

Title Birthing a mother : the surrogate body and the pregnant self / Elly Teman.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Surrogate mothers -- Israel.
Surrogate mothers.
Israel.
Mothers -- Israel.
Mothers.
Pregnancy -- Israel.
Pregnancy.
Judaism.
Judaism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Mothers.
Other Form: Print version: Teman, Elly. Birthing a mother. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520259638 9780520259645 (DLC) 2009019426 (OCoLC)327636267
ISBN 9780520945852 (electronic book)
0520945859 (electronic book)
9780520259638 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520259637 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520259645 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520259645 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786612556159
3231464